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Fewer ships handle more cargo at Ukraine’s seaports

Monday, March 18, 2019
Fewer ships handle more cargo at Ukraine’s seaports

Fewer ships handle more cargo at Ukraine’s seaports. During the first two months of this year, cargo was up 12.5% y-o-y to 23 million tons, but port calls were down 7%, to 1,726 vessels. As last fall’s bumper harvest moved through the ports, exports rose 21.5%, while imports fell by 5%. For export, the ships carried 35.5% more grain and 26% more metals than during the same period last year.

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Kyiv’s single car, self-propelled electric train to the plane has proved so popular that the state railroad plans to replace it with a conventional diesel locomotive pulling passenger cars

Kyiv’s single car, self-propelled electric train to the plane has proved so popular that the state railroad plans to replace it with a conventional diesel locomotive pulling passenger cars

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A nearly $100 million international tender has been announced for dismantling the cement sarcophagus built in 1986 around the still smoldering remains of the damaged reactor at Chernobyl.

A nearly $100 million international tender has been announced for dismantling the cement sarcophagus built in 1986 around the still smoldering remains of the damaged reactor at Chernobyl.

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