Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Senik has held talks via videlink with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman Ahmed Yousuf Al-Harthy. These are the first talks at the level of deputy foreign ministers in the history of bilateral relations, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.
It is noted that the main topic of the conversation was practical steps that will enable intensification of the development of Ukrainian-Omani cooperation in the political, trade, economic and investment spheres.
“Ukraine and Oman have significant potential for expanding trade and economic cooperation. In particular, an increase in the supply of Ukrainian agricultural and food products to the Omani market will increase the level of food security of the Sultanate,” Senik said.
The parties noted the importance of maintaining a political dialogue between Ukraine and Oman, in particular in the format of regular consultations between the foreign ministries. In this regard, Senik invited Al-Harthy to visit Kyiv.
The Omani side also welcomed the initiative of the Deputy Minister to organize a visit of a business delegation to Muscat in order to intensify contacts between commodity producers.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, trade in goods between Ukraine and Oman amounted to $89.1 million (domestic exports accounted for $79.45 million) in 2019. In January-August 2020, it was equal to $78.88 million (of which Ukrainian exports was $63.78 million).
In December 2018, an export mission of Ukrainian producers visited Muscat. In April and October 2019, Ukrainian-Omani business forums were held with the participation of delegations from regional chambers of commerce and industry of North Ash-Sharqiyah and Al-Buraimi provinces. On November 6, 2019, the first round of political consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Sultanate of Oman took place in Muscat.
Arricano Real Estate Plc (Cyprus), the management company and developer of a number of shopping and entertainment centers in Ukraine, will limit the work of its trade centers in Kyiv, Zaporizhia and Kryvy Rih on weekends in accordance with the quarantine conditions until November 30.
According to a report from Arricano on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the mall will be open an hour longer on weekdays.
Such restrictions will not significantly affect the financial results, the company believes.
Arricano Real Estate Plc specializes in the construction of shopping and entertainment centers, and is one of the leading developers on the Ukrainian real estate market. It owns and operates five shopping centers in the country with a total area of 147,300 square meters, namely RayON and Prospect in Kyiv, Soniacha Halereya (Solar Gallery) in Kryvy Rih, City Mall in Zaporizhia. The company also owns 49.9% in Sky Mall (Kyiv).
The third container train from China on a new route, which delivered 41 forty-foot containers with shoes, non-ferrous metal products, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, consumer goods and other combined cargo, arrived at the Kyiv-Lisky station.
The press service of Ukrzaliznytsia reported last week, the company has already received 17 trains from different regions of China. These trains run from Wuhan and Jinannan and carry 43 containers with various cargoes: magnesium sulfate, equipment, aluminum frames, disposable syringes, PET bottles and light industrial products.
Trains cover the distance of transportation, which is more than 9,000 km across the territory of four countries, in 15 days.
Ukrzaliznytsia will continue receiving trains from China according to a new logistics scheme with a further increase in their frequency.
“The introduction of new logistics schemes for the transportation of goods allows attracting additional cargo flows and opens up new opportunities for the users of transport services to deliver goods to their destination. This work is carried out together with the solution of pressing issues regarding tariff policy, technical re-equipment, improving the technology of the transportation process and services,” the company said.
Ukrzaliznytsia added that its branch Lisky center of transport service plans to continue active work on identifying new promising routes for container trains.
Kozliv distillery (Ternopil region) of the state-owned enterprise Ukrspyrt at an online auction on Friday, November 13, was acquired by Business Initiatives LLC (Kyiv) for UAH 59 million.
According to the information on the website ProZorro.Sales, the starting price of the distillery was UAH 37.57 million. The facility was put up for auction for the first time. Two companies took part in the auction.
The daily production capacity of the enterprise is 4,200 decaliters of alcohol. It was founded in 1772, and modernized in 2020. Production at the distillery is temporarily suspended.
According to the unified public register of legal entities and private entrepreneurs, Tetiana Maksymova is the ultimate beneficiary of Business Initiatives LLC. The company is engaged in consulting on informatization issues.
As of November 12, Ukrainian agricultural producers harvested 75.2 million tonnes of basic crops from an area of 22.8 million hectares, in particular, 57.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were harvested from an area of about 14.1 million hectares (92% forecast).
According to a report on the website of the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture, 21.4 million tonnes of corn was harvested from an area of 4.3 million hectares (78%), 12.9 million tonnes of sunflower from 6.3 million hectares (99%), 2.6 million tonnes of soybeans from 1.3 million hectares (94%), 241,700 tonnes of millet from 148,600 hectares (99%) and 104,700 tonnes of buckwheat from 77,800 hectares (99%).
Some 6.7 million tonnes of sugar beet was dug from an area of 161,600 hectares (75%).
As reported, the Economy Ministry predicted the grain harvest in 2020 at 68 million tonnes. Of the early grains, the following have already been threshed: 25.1 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 6.6 million hectares; 7.8 million tonnes of barley from 2.4 million hectares; 516,200 tonnes of peas from 238,000 hectares; 2.56 million tonnes of rapeseed from 1.1 million hectares.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 16/11/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
