Ukraine in January-May 2019 imported 3.491 billion cubic meters of natural gas for a total of $800.324 million, in particular in May some 1.218 billion cubic meters for $250.028 million, according to the State Statistics Service.
Thus, the average price of gas imported by the country in May 2019 was $205.3 per 1,000 cubic meters, which is 2.4% less than in April 2019 ($210.4).
In the five months, imports from Switzerland amounted to 1.218 billion cubic meters of gas for $275.519 million, from Germany to 1.031 billion cubic meters for $228.196 million, Hungary to 266.117 million cubic meters for $57.3 million, Poland some 285.336 million cubic meters worth $62.347 million, Austria to 204.973 million cubic meters for $59.577 million, the Czech Republic to 153.797 million cubic meters for $34.207 million, France to 140.458 million cubic meters for $32.106 million, the UK some 93.25 million cubic meters for $25.952 million, Luxembourg to 73.959 million cubic meters for $19.982 million, Italy to 16.893 million cubic meters for $3.487 million, Slovakia to 6.309 million cubic meters worth $1.448 million, and Bulgaria some 962,000 cubic meters for $206,000.
Ukraine did not import gas from the Russian Federation during this period.
The chief operating officer of U.S.-based Trident Acquisitions Corp., the ex-head of Smart-Holding, Oleksiy Tymofeyev, launches a challenge to attract investment in Ukraine if the Servant of the People party fulfills the promised reforms. “If Zelensky’s team fulfills its checklist of reforms, I pledge to personally bring to Ukraine at least $100 million in direct investment per year. Each has its own Ironman [the triathlon competition]. I have one,” he said on Facebook.
The candidate for people’s deputy from the Servant of the People party, David Arakhamiya [also knows as David Braun], who was appointed member of the Ukroboronprom supervisory board by the president of Ukraine in July, noted in his commentary to Tymofeyev “I’ll hold you to that!”
Chairman of the board of ATF Bank (Kazakhstan), the ex-director for business development at Nova Poshta, Serhiy Kovalenko, also said in comments that he is ready to support the initiative with an investment amount of $50 million.
The manager of the asset development and valuation department of DTEK Oil&Gas, Yuriy Moroz, in turn, wrote that he would run the Ironman competition if Tymofeyev attracts the promised investments.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to justify the trust of Ukrainians in the Servant of the People party at the parliamentary elections and called the main priorities of his political force in the Verkhovna Rada of the new convocation. “Some 73% was better, but I am personally and each of us is grateful to the people of Ukraine for their support. We thank the people of Ukraine for the very great confidence in our Servant of the People party. I want to say that this is also a big responsibility for me personally and for our team. We will not let the Ukrainians down,” he said at the party headquarters on Sunday evening.
Zelensky stressed that the main priorities of his team are terminating the war, returning captured Ukrainians and defeating corruption that still exists in Ukraine.
The Servant of the People Party with 42.49% of the vote, the Opposition Platform – For Life – 12.98%, European Solidarity – 8,56%, Batkivschyna – 8.01%, and Holos – 6.34% enter the Verkhovna Rada, according to the results of 62,02% of electronic protocols processed by the Central Election Commission (CEC). According to the CEC electronic scoreboard, the rest of the parties currently do not overcome the 5% pass barrier to parliament.
Wind Solar Energy LLC (Kyiv) intends to build the Ovruch wind power plant (Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region) with a capacity of 25 MW, according to the website of the unified register of environmental impact assessment.
The project includes building seven wind turbines with a capacity of 3.57 MW each. The height of the towers will be 130 meters.
In addition, it is planned to build 35 kV power grids. The operation life of the farm is 20 years.
As reported, Wind Solar Energy intends to build three phases of the Lisova wind farm in the area of the Pokaliv village in Korosten district, Zhytomyr region, with a total capacity of up to 190 MW.
According to data posted on the company’s website, Wind Solar Energy through its subsidiary Solar Kvant has been operating solar plants of 5 MW on 10 hectares in Dnipropetrovsk region since 2013.
The transport enterprises of Ukraine in January-June 2019 increased freight transportation by 8.2% compared to the same period of 2018, to 328.5 million tonnes, the State Statistics Service has reported. According to its data, freight turnover for the period rose by 3%, to 167.5 billion tonne-kilometers.
According to statistics, in January-June 2019 rail transportation inside the country and for exports amounted to 129.9 million tonnes of cargo, which is 0.6% less than in January-June 2018.
Transportation of timber cargo decreased by 59.3%, construction materials by 24.9%, scrap metal by 13.3%, coke by 12.7%, coal by 4.9%, ferrous metals by 2.9%, and cement by 6.1%.
At the same time, transportation of oil and petroleum products rose by 3.2%, iron and manganese ore by 5.6%, chemical and mineral fertilizers by 17.7%, grain and cereals by 23.6%.
The volume of cargo transported by pipeline in January-June 2019 grew compared with January-June 2018. Thus, ammonia transportation increased by 12.4%, gas transportation by 1.9%. At the same time, oil pumping decreased by 9.3%. Ammonia transit increased by 10.9%, gas transit by 6.1%. Oil transit fell by 12.1%.
