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According to the results from November, the foreign trade deficit in Ukraine decreased to $2.12B ($2.96B in October). Imports of goods amounted to $5.07B, which is 10.1% less compared to October, while exports during this period increased by 10% to $3.23B. The improvement in the foreign trade balance in November was influenced by the automobile blockade at the borders with the EU and increasing sea transportation. The blockade of freight traffic by Poland and Slovakia was the main reason imports

The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade in goods for the first 10 months of the year has increased 2.6 times compared to the same period in 2021, to $7.05B from $2.69B. According to the State Statistics Service, Ukraine’s export of goods during the reporting period compared to January-October in 2021 decreased by 32.3% to $36.86B, and imports by 23.2% to $43.91B. The State Statistics Service specified that in October of this year, compared to September, the seasonally adjusted volume

The foreign trade deficit in Ukraine for January-July this year amounted to $4.3B, which is 150% more than a year earlier, announced the State Customs Service. In the seven months of 2022 thus far, the turnover of goods amounted to $55.7B. In January-July, goods worth $30B were imported into Ukraine, and $25.7B was exported from Ukraine. The countries with the most imports to Ukraine were China, with $4.2B, Poland, with $2.7B, and Germany, with $2.6B. Ukraine exported the most to

The negative balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade for the first five months of 2022 decreased by 9.3% to $878.4M compared to last year. This is evidenced by data from the State Statistics Service. Export of goods from Ukraine for the first five months of 2022 compared to January-May 2021 decreased by 20.4% to $19.6B, and imports – by 19.9% ​​to $20.5B. The export-import coverage ratio in January-May 2022 was 0.96 (in January-May 2021 it was also 0.96). The State Statistics

compared to the same January-March period last year. Exports were up by 12% to $13.75 billion. Imports were up by 12% to $15.1 billion. Overall trade totaled $28.8 billion. “The Ukrainian economy is recovering,” Deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka wrote on Facebook. “Good news – export is growing.”

Lemtrans, Ukraine’s largest freight wagon operator, increased its cargo last year by 23% yoy, Vladimir Mezentsev, the company’s general director, tells Interfax-Ukraine. With world iron prices jumping, Lemtrans carried 25 million tons of iron ore, 49% more than last year. The company, ranked by Forbes as one of Ukraine’s top 100 by size, wants to run private freight trains to the Black Sea ports. In a pilot program, Ukzaliznytsia has granted a provisional license last fall to a small Lviv

With Russia easing its maritime restrictions of Ukraine’s Sea of Azov ports, Mariupol increased its grain exports by 20% yoy, to 623,000 tons. This year, tonnage could hit 1 million tons, if a new grain handling complex is completed, says Igor Barskiy, port director. Through October, the port had handled 5 million tons of cargo, a 9% yoy increase. Located 25 km west of the front line, Mariupol is the main port for Donetsk Region.

A second IKEA store in Kyiv will open this fall with the opening of Ocean Mall, developer Vagiv Aliyev said yesterday on the occasion of the opening the Ukraine’s first IKEA in his Blockbuster Mall. Due to coronavirus controls, visitors enter the new IKEA through a reservation system that sends an SMS to a mobile phone. Only 500 customers are allowed at one time at the new 5,000 square meter store. Mayor Klitschko welcomed yesterday’s opening saying: “This is the

As work starts this month on a 3-year, $57 million rebuilding of Vinnytsia airport and runway, designers expect it will become a major airport for central Ukraine, handling 500,000 passengers a year, 10 times the 2019 volume. “The service area of ​​Vinnytsia airport is more than 6 million residents of the regions,” Kirill Khomyakov, head of Ukrinfraproekt, the state infrastructure construction agency. “Modernization of the airport will create new jobs, increase tourism potential and contribute to the region’s economy.” Wizz

To draw factories to Vinnytsia’s 35-hectare Industrial Park, the park managers are offering free electricity hookups. This is made possible by Kness Group, a Vinnytsia-based company that is investing $10 million to building a dedicated energy supply system for the park.

Ukraine deficit in foreign trade in goods and services plummeted by 86%, to $1.7 billion last year, down from $12.1 billion in 2019, reports the National Bank of Ukraine. Ukraine’s deficit of foreign trade in goods dropped by more than half last year, to $6.1 billion, from $14.7 billion. By contrast, Ukraine’s surplus of foreign trade in services more than doubled, to $4.6 billion, from $1.75 billion.

“Ukraine’s economy also is recovering faster than anticipated,” according to official notes of the January 20 meeting of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. The 10-member committee predicted: “The economy this year is expected to regain almost all of the ground it has lost to the coronavirus crisis.” With foreign investment flows returning to Ukraine’s bond market, one committee member predicted: “The 2019 scenario where foreign capital flooded the Ukrainian economy is likely to repeat itself.”

Firefly Aerospace Inc, a US rocket and space company, with deep Ukrainian roots, plans to raise $350 million to scale up production and work on a medium-class launch vehicle, Space News reports from Washington. “In the next five years we want to take Firefly from a $1 billion company when we go out and fly Alpha,” Firefly’s CEO Tom Markusic, told an IPO webinar on Thursday. By developing Beta, a medium-class launch vehicle, Firefly aims in five years to become

President Zelenskiy flatly rules out allowing Chinese companies to buy Motor Sich, Ukraine’s giant aircraft engine manufacturer. “We do not have the right to sell a controlling stake in the management of strategic defense enterprises of Ukraine to any country,” he told an Axios interviewer in Kyiv on Jan. 23. Asked if China would be allowed to buy the company, he responded: “Never, at least under my presidency…During my presidency, this will not be the case.”

Hungary has confirmed that it will loan €50 million to Ukravtodor to rebuild two bridges over the river border with Ukraine and a 10 km stretch of highway to better connect Hungarian and Ukrainian highway systems. While Hungary builds the last 26 km of a 307 km four lane divided highway from Budapest to the Ukrainian border, Hungarian money will finance a northern prolongation over the Tisa River and around Berehove to connect with Ukraine’s M-24. Traffic planners predict this

About 50 km upriver, to the west, Hungarian money will finance a rebuilding of the road bridge over the Tisa at Chop, currently the busiest crossing point. Hungary first offered the loan to Ukraine’s state highway agency several years ago. The money was unlocked by last week’s visit to Kyiv of Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Zakarpattia is the homeland of Ukraine’s Hungarian-speaking minority.

Private international construction companies will be invited to participate shortly in tenders to rebuild and maintain six highway segments in Ukraine, the Infrastructure Ministry reports. These first ‘public private’ highway partnerships were selected to have a maximum impact, Minister Vladyslav Krikliy noted, adding: “These highways connect 10 regions of Ukraine, where more than 12 million people live.”

The highways will not have tolls. The state will gradually repay private road companies for the work and maintenance through 20- or 30-year contracts. The forecast amount of total investment is around $1.7 billion. Experts from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation drew on international experience to help design the PPP program.