Partners news Thursday, June 24 Editor’s Note: Crimean War II? A British Royal Navy destroyer, the HMS Defender, was steaming past Crimea’s Cape Fiolent yesterday morning, when a Russia coast guard vessel fired warning shots and then a Russian Suk...
Partners news Thursday, June 24 Air traffic in and out of Lviv airport this week exceeded pre-crisis numbers of June 2019, reports avianews.com. On Tuesday, the airport handled 53 flights – two more than on June 22, 2019. On Wednesday, the airport handled 54 flights, four more that on the corresponding day in 2019. Last y... #AirTrafficinLviv #LvivFlightsrecovery
Partners news Thursday, June 24 For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit Ukraine 15 months ago, Kyiv Boryspil airport is opening all five of its passenger entrances and exits at Terminal D, the main terminal . “Summer is in full swing,” Georgy Zubko, the airport director, said yesterday. “The airport serves about 260 flights daily. The average daily passenger traffic exceeds 37,000 people.” All five... #BoryspilFlights2021 #KyivBoryspilOpensDoors #KyivBoryspilRecovery
Partners news Thursday, June 24 With Ukraine and rest of Europe racing to vaccinate as many people as possible, health officials warn there could be a fourth wave of the pandemic this fall . In April, at the height of the last wave, the number of deaths in Ukraine was up 48.5%, compared to April 2020, when the pandemic was only starting. Through June 18, the number of deaths in Ukraine ... #covid19ukraine #CovidforthwaveUkraine
Partners news Thursday, June 24 Vaccinations seem to be effective against the Delta variant, or at least they minimize the impact. After a slow start, Ukraine is now vaccinating about 50,000 people a day at 90 mass vaccination centers across Ukraine. So far, 2.15 million vaccinations have bee... #Covid19VaccinationInUkraine #VaccinationUkraine
Partners news Thursday, June 24 Ukraine is considering strengthening border controls over travelers from the Britain, India, Portugal and Russia to prevent the spread of Delta variant, the Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said yesterday. Only two weeks ago, as new infections started to dip below 1,000 a day, Ukraine relaxed travel requirements. ... #covid19ukraine #CovidBorderControl
Partners news Thursday, June 24 The highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant has come to Kyiv. A woman and a teenager who arrived from Russia tested positive and were hospitalized in Kyiv, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, told TSN news last night. The var... #Covid19DeltahascometoUkraine #Covid19DeltaUkraine
Economy Thursday, June 24 This year, 13 Chinese container trains have arrived in Ukraine, and 67 Chinese trains have moved in transit across Ukraine . Ukrzaliznytsia and freight forwarding companies are working to fill trains returning to China with exports from Ukraine. In the 10 years since the first Chinese freight train traveled to Europe, 40,... #ChinaUkraineTrains #FreightContainerTrains #TrainsfromChina
Economy Thursday, June 24 China’s first container train to Odesa arrived Saturday at DP World TIS Pivdennyi container terminal. Moving 50 containers, the train took 20 days to travel 8,408 km from Guangzhou (Canton) to Odesa. The train is to operate on a regular basis, Uni Laman Group, the Ukrainian freight forwarding company ... #ChinaContainerTrains #ContainerTrainsfromChinatoOdesa #OdesaGotfirstChinesetraine
FinanceInvestments Thursday, June 24 Two-way China-Ukraine trade in farm goods jumped by one third, to $5.7 billion, during the first four months of this year, compared to January-April of last year, reports Ukraine’s Economy Ministry. Chinese investment in Ukrainian fisheries and food processing plants was discussed yesterday at a bilateral agricultural coo... #chinaandukraine #ChineseInvestinginUkraine #UkraineChinatrade2021
Finance Thursday, June 24 Timothy Ash writes from London: “Massive, massive loss to the NBU… Dima has become the point person for investors to understand the Ukraine macro story and how the NBU thinks about these things… It seems very much that the NBU will ... #NBUloosespeople #NBUstaffmovement
Finance Thursday, June 24 The central bank council decided yesterday not te renew its 5-year contract with Dmytro Sologub, a deputy bank governor, after it expires July 10. Sologub, a stalwart of the post-Maidan banking reform, is responsible for the Monetary Stability unit of the National Bank of Ukraine. This includes monetary policy, statisti... #DmytroSologubGoesAway #NBUfiresPeople #NBUmanagementshift
EnergyInvestments Thursday, June 24 In Ukraine, Metinvest is planning to make high quality steel at its Illyich plant in Mariupol. Due to the lack of high quality steel, “there is no development of machine building or home appliances,” Ryzhenkov said. “It is impossible to attract a car manufacturer here.” In Italy, Metinvest is i... #HighQualitySteelFromUkraine #Metinvesthighqualitysteel #MetinvestSteelUkraine
Energy Thursday, June 24 If royalties go up, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih may abandon a plan to $1 billion in new production, Mauro Longobardo, the company CEO, tells Ekonomichna Pravda “[If royalties go up] it creates an additional financial burden in the production of iron ore and runs counter to the possibility of investi... #ArcelorMittalUkraine #IronOreProductionKryvyiRih
Energy Thursday, June 24 Metinvest and ArcelorMittal object to the Rada’s move to raise royalties on iron mined in Ukraine. Metinvest’s Ryzhenkov says that the company paid $370 million in taxes during the first half of the year – seven times more than in the first half of last year. “The budget is getting more money today... #TaxesonIronMining #TaxforArcelorMittal #taxraseonIronMiningInUkraine #UkraineRasesTaxesforMetinvest
Energy Thursday, June 24 Prices for ore and metal products have peaked, Yury Ryzhenkov, general director of Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest integrated metals company, told reporters yesterday at a press conference marking the company’s 15th anniversary. “Prices peaked at the... #ApartmentPriceswillRise #MetalfromUkraine #MetinvestUkraine
Energy Thursday, June 24 Through May, Ukraine’s iron ore exports dipped by 2% in volume, but doubled in value, to $3.1 billion, compared to the first five months of last year. The revenue rise accelerated in May, hitting $788 million, three times the level of one year earlier, reports SteelOrbis news site. The main markets are... #ExportfromUkraine #IronOreExportfromUkraine #IronOreProductionUkraine