Nova Poshta Group has launched the first Nova Post office in Estonia, in the capital Tallinn, the company’s co-founder Volodymyr Popereshnyuk wrote on his Facebook page.
According to him, the first shipment from Estonia had an addressee in the Izium district of Kharkiv region.
According to the company’s press release, Nova Post’s Tallinn branch, which is open seven days a week, allows customers to receive and send documents, parcels, and cargo up to 1,000 kg to Ukraine.
The cost of delivery to Estonia from Ukraine is: UAH 250 for documents, as well as UAH 400, UAH 600 and UAH 1.2 thousand for parcels up to 2 kg, 10 kg and 30 kg, respectively. When sending a parcel from 30 to 100 kg, 40 UAH is paid for each kilogram.
It is noted that delivery from Ukraine to Estonia takes 5 days.
In addition, there is a courier call service in Estonia through the Nova Poshta app.
“Delivery or pickup by courier to the address is charged an additional UAH 100 for shipments up to 30 kg, or UAH 250 for every 100 kg”, the company said in a statement.
Nova Post has already opened 62 branches in Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, and Moldova and plans to open in Latvia, Hungary, Italy, France, and Austria by the end of the year.
As of the beginning of July 2023, the Nova Poshta network in Ukraine included more than 10 thousand branches and more than 14 thousand post offices.
The Group of Companies includes Ukrainian and foreign companies, including Nova Poshta, NP Logistic, NovaPay payment system and Nova Poshta Global.
“Centravis Production Ukraine”, a part of Centravis Ltd. holding, produced 9.4 thousand tons of seamless stainless steel pipes in January-September this year, up 12.3% year-on-year (8.37 thousand tons).
“We are fighting for every ton, as some potential customers still do not want to deal with Ukrainian producers because of the full-scale war. We have just returned from two international exhibitions – Stainless Steel World in the Netherlands and Adipec 2023 in the United Arab Emirates. The key task of our salespeople is to convince them that the Ukrainian company is capable of performing its work at a high level even in the current environment. This is exactly what we have been doing for almost 1 year and 9 months”, Centravis CEO Yuriy Atanasov commented on the preliminary results of the first nine months of this year, as quoted by the press service.
According to him, production utilization is currently at 65-75% of the pre-war level.
According to a press release on Friday, despite the constant shelling of Nikopol and the area, Centravis continues to develop. In 2023, the company opened a new production facility in Uzhhorod with a total investment of over UAH 50 million and continues to export its products to different regions of the world. In particular, it participates in the implementation of such landmark projects as the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
Founded in 2000, “Centravis” is one of the ten largest producers of seamless stainless steel pipes in the world. Its main production facilities are located in Nikopol (Dnipropetrovska oblast), and in 2023 a branch of the company was opened in Uzhhorod.
The company employs over 1400 people.
The company’s supply geography exceeds 50 countries. Currently, Centravis has offices in the United States, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, and the United Arab Emirates. “Centravis” cooperates with Benteler Automotive, Buhlmann Group, Webco – with various companies on different continents.
Centravis Ltd. holding was established on the basis of Nikopol Stainless Pipe Plant CJSC, service and trading companies of Production and Commercial Enterprise YUVIS LLC. Its shareholders are members of the Atanasov family. Centravis Ltd. owns 100% of the shares in Centravis Production Ukraine.
The profit of the state-owned Ukrgasbank in January-September 2023 amounted to UAH 2.92 billion, while the bank ended the same period in 2022 with a net loss of UAH 3.36 billion, according to the financial institution’s website.
“The target was exceeded by more than UAH 1.05 billion,” Ukrgasbank commented on the financial result.
The operating profit before taxation and deductions to reserves for January-September of this year amounted to UAH 3.25 billion, in particular, in September the bank received UAH 530 million of operating profit, and net operating profit amounted to UAH 299.6 million.
The press service noted that Ukrgasbank is among the five banks with the largest increase in customer accounts: the growth of the hryvnia portfolio of individuals and legal entities in January-September amounted to UAH 2.8 billion and UAH 18.4 billion, respectively.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of September 1, 2023, Ukrgasbank ranked 4th in terms of total assets (UAH 168.6 billion) among 64 banks operating in the country, its net profit for the first half of the year amounted to UAH 2.6 billion.
In the third quarter, the state-owned bank’s network decreased by one branch and now includes 218 structural units across the country.
Blackstone Group Inc. the world’s largest alternative investment management company, recorded strong net income growth in the third quarter of 2023 and an increase in assets under management.
According to a company press release, net income for the July-September period totaled $552 million, or 73 cents per share, compared with $2.3 million, or less than 1 cent per share, for the same period a year earlier.
Meanwhile, distributable earnings fell to $1.2 billion from $1.4 billion.
Revenue jumped to $2.54 billion from $1.06 billion.
The volume of assets under management of Blackstone at the end of the third quarter amounted to $1.01 trillion, up 6% over the year.
The company will pay a dividend of 80 cents per share at the end of the third quarter.
Blackstone’s stock price is down 5.8% in Thursday trading. Since the beginning of this year, the company’s capitalization has increased by almost 30% to $124.3 billion.
The state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” together with communities and international partners launches the Forest Recovery program, said the general director of the enterprise Yuriy Bolokhovets.
“There are more than 1.5 million hectares of self-sown forests in Ukraine. Previously, such forest was ruthlessly destroyed. But now there is a legal mechanism to save it. We are launching the Forest Recovery project together with our western partners Forest Europe and Eustafor. They support such an idea,” he wrote on Facebook.
Bolokhovets said that communities on a volunteer basis transfer land plots, in particular degraded areas or self-sown forests, to the state enterprise. They understand the importance of preserving and enhancing nature, the need to improve the ecosystem, to pass on to their descendants a comfortable environment for life with the presence of recreational areas, ecotourism, etc.
Director General of “Forests of Ukraine” thanked eco-conscious communities that care about the future of society. They will be awarded with diplomas, and information about the project implementation will be passed on to international partners.
The first winner of Forest Recovery was Omelnytska community (Poltava region), which transferred 55 hectares of land for forest planting and almost 129 hectares of self-seeded forests for the restoration of the branch “Kremenchug Forestry”. In gratitude, foresters landscaped the central street of the settlement.
The European Union has approved the decision to extend temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine until March 4, 2025, the European Commission said.
“On September 27, 2023, ministers reached a political agreement to extend temporary protection for Ukrainian nationals until March 4, 2025. The decision was taken on October 19, 2023,” the European Commission said in a statement on its official website on Thursday.
The EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive on March 4, 2022. This is an EU mechanism that is activated in exceptional circumstances of mass influx to provide collective protection to displaced persons and reduce pressure on the national asylum systems of EU countries.
According to the EC, a total of 4.1 million refugees from Ukraine are registered for temporary protection or similar schemes in the EU.
