The Danube Shipping Company started to create a green hub for the maintenance of ships and a system for disposing of waste contaminated with petroleum products. General Director of the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company, Dmytro Moskalenko, announced this on his Facebook page. “The green course for the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company is more than a … Read more
The German Government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will jointly allocate EUR 3 million ($3.33 million) for green industrial reconstruction and development projects, UNIDO reported on its site on April 21. The Industrial Capacity Development, Policies and Diagnostics for Ukraine’s Green Recovery project aims to provide industrial research and diagnostics, as well as recommendations … Read more
Czech control authorities checked samples of grain, meat, and eggs from Ukraine and found none that did not meet the standards. Minister of Agriculture Zdeněk Nekula told journalists today, along with the directors of the State Agricultural and Food Inspection, the State Veterinary Administration, and the Central Agricultural Inspection and Testing Institute, Ceske Noviny reports. … Read more
Polish milk processors are concerned about the closure of their market for the export of Ukrainian dairy products and expect the use of the reciprocity principle, which will lead to a drop in Ukraine’s imports of Polish dairy products, Infagro analytical agency has reported. “Today, most of all, I am afraid of using the reciprocity … Read more
The Ukrainian Union of Dairy Enterprises appealed to the government with a demand to protect the domestic dairy industry and apply mirror measures to Polish dairy products, in particular, to ban its imports for the period of the ban on the export of Ukrainian dairy products to Poland. “In the first quarter of 2023, Ukraine … Read more
Ukraine’s public and publicly guaranteed debt increased by $13.4 billion to 78.5% of GDP at of the end of 2022 compared to 48.9% of GDP by the end of 2021, the Ministryof Finance tweeted on April 19. “In the year 2022, Russian full scale invasion led Ukraine’s nominal GDP to drop to $161 billion and increased Ukraine’s state debt … Read more
The European Union will take preventive steps against agricultural products from Ukraine and add EUR 100 million in financial aid to protesting farmers, the Interfax-Ukraine reported on April 19. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on the governments of five EU member states (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria) to develop a common European approach, as is required … Read more
The European Council has approved the European Commission’s proposal to include the agreement on a free mobile roaming zone with Ukraine in the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported on Telegram on April 18. “We are getting closer to mobile roaming with the EU. To prevent Ukrainians from paying additional communication fees … Read more
The export of electricity will be stopped in case of a shortage of generation capacity for domestic consumers, Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Haluschenko said. “There can be no export if there is not enough generation for domestic consumers,” the minister said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday. At the same time, … Read more
Ukraine and Poland have reached an agreement on restarting transit of Ukrainian grain, Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported on April 18. The transit will restart overnight on April 21. Additional control measures will be applied to transit shipments and will be publicly announced to suppliers shortly, the agency said. Ukraine understands the situation among … Read more