Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

STATE DEBT OF UKRAINE FROM 2009 TILL 2019 (MLN UAH)

State debt of ukraine from 2009 till 2019 (mln uah)

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UKRAINIAN PRODUCER OF OAK AND FRUIT WOOD BRIQUETTES READY FOR COOPERATION

Since 2016, VNG STANDART has been producing Pini-Kay oak and fruit wood briquettes for use in solid fuel boilers, fireplaces. It also produces wood charcoal briquettes for charcoal grills, barbecue grills, and charcoal ovens.
The company ships products to Germany, Belgium, Poland, Romania, and other countries.
Wood charcoal briquettes have much more advantages than traditional lump charcoal.
Key advantages include:
– Environmentally friendly;
– Much more economical than traditional lump charcoal for outdoor grills and BBQ grills;
– Even burning for up to seven hours without smoke and sparks;
– Ideal balance of heat output;
– Calorific value 8,200-8,900 kcal;
– Possibility of reuse;
– Convenient shape, compact packaging.

The price of wood charcoal briquettes is US$520 per tonne on FCA terms.
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SKYUP LAUNCHES FLIGHTS TO ITALIAN TURIN

The Ukrainian low cost air carrier SkyUp Airlines (Kyiv) will launch new flight from Kyiv to Turin (Italy) for a winter navigation period 2019/2020, airlines reported on its website.
The flights will be operated twice a week: on Thursdays and on Sundays. The cost of a ticket starts from UAH 1,410.
As reported, SkyUp from October will launch direct flights between Kharkiv and Lviv, as well as flights from Kyiv to Kharkiv and Zaporizhia.
SkyUp Airlines in the first half of 2019 transported 668,500 passengers.
Currently, the airline’s fleet includes eight aircraft: six Boeing 737-800s and two Boeing 737-700s.

BLOOD PREPARATIONS MANUFACTURER BIOPHARMA TO OFFICIALLY OPEN FRACTIONATOR PLANT IN KYIV REGION

The blood preparations manufacturer, Biopharma, at the end of September will officially open a fractionator plant in Bila Tserkva (Kyiv region).
As the company told Interfax-Ukraine, the construction and commissioning work lasted about four years. In total, the company invested more than $75 million in the construction of the plant.
The plant has installed equipment from global manufacturers in the industry: Stilmas, Olsa, GEA Westfalia, General Electric healthcare, Pall, and Steriline.
“This is the only this kind of plant in Eastern Europe. Our competitors are in Austria, South Africa and China. None of the neighboring countries has such production,” the company said.
For the official opening of the production Biopharma will hold an international conference entitled “Topical Issues of Industrial Production of Blood Products” with the participation of representatives of scientific, medical and regulatory institutions in the field of transfusion from more than 20 countries.
As reported, the plant will have three lines for the production of albumin, immunoglobulin, and factor VIII. The processing capacity ranges from 250,000 to one million liters of plasma per year. Biopharma planned to put it into operation at the end of 2018.
Biopharma immunobiological pharmaceutical company is among the ten largest Ukrainian manufacturers of drugs. It produces more than 20 immunobiological preparations from donated blood plasma, preparations obtained by recombinant DNA technology and probiotics.

PRESIDENT OF FINLAND SAULI NIINISTO TO VISIT UKRAINE IN SEPTEMBER

President of Finland Sauli Niinisto will visit Ukraine on September 12-13.
“President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö will make an official visit to Ukraine and will meet President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on 12–13 September 2019. This will be the first meeting of Presidents Niinistö and Zelensky,” the official website of the Finnish president said.
President Niinistö last visited Ukraine in 2014.

SURPLUS OF UKRAINE’S FOREIGN TRADE IN SERVICES INCREASES BY 13%

The surplus of Ukraine’s foreign trade in services in January-June 2019 increased by 13.3% compared with January-June 2018, to $2.937 billion ($2.593 billion in H1 2018), the State Statistics Service has reported. Exports of services in January-June 2019 grew by 7.6%, to $5.897 billion, while imports of services rose by 2.5%, to $2.96 billion.
The ratio of coverage of imports by exports was 1.99 in January-June 2019 (1.9 in H1 2018).
Foreign trade operations in the service sector were carried out with partners from 226 countries.