In Ukraine, sunflower prices have approached the historical price maximum of 25-27 thousand UAH/ton of CPT, according to APK-Inform news agency.
“There are already the first small enterprises that have switched from sunflower processing to alternative crops due to high prices, but other oilseeds are not so good,” the analysts said, adding that many processors report the margin is almost non-existent.
Large plants can afford to work in the red for some time, while small processing companies will either have to stop working until the price situation improves or switch to processing other oilseeds, APK-Inform stated.
In Uzbekistan, the Trade Development Company (TDC) will reimburse transportation costs for exports of fruit and vegetable products.
According to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the funds are provided to exporting companies after the products are shipped abroad by air. The amount of payments depends on the country of destination and the volume of goods.
For deliveries to China or Afghanistan, 13% of the cost will be paid. For exports to other countries (except those bordering Uzbekistan), the compensation will be 15%.
The CRT was established by a presidential decree and is managed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is responsible for the distribution of funds from the Trade Promotion Fund, in particular for export subsidies.
The organization covers the costs of transportation, renting foreign offices, warehouses, retail space, insurance, and advertising. It also helps businesses establish cooperation with foreign brands and attract foreign specialists.
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According to the results of the 2024 admission campaign to vocational education institutions, the most popular professions in Ukraine are cook, car mechanic, electric and gas welder, pastry chef, driver and tractor driver, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine reports.
“The admission campaign to vocational schools ended in October. The most popular professions were cook, car mechanic, electric and gas welder, confectioner, driver and tractor driver. Also, the top nine most sought-after professions on the Ukrainian labor market in terms of the number of vacancies on job search sites include cook, driver, and mechanic,” the Ministry of Education said in a statement.
It is noted that in 2024, more than 94,803 thousand students chose vocational education, and a total of 219,438 people started studying.
The Ministry said that the volume of regional order fulfillment is 92%, which is 4% higher than in 2023 (88%). This demonstrates a positive trend in how institutions are adapting to the needs of local businesses.
According to the report, the leaders among the regions that received the largest number of applications for training under the regional order are: Dnipro region – 5,423 students, Lviv region – 4,829 students, and Kyiv – 4,526 students. Among the regions that received the largest number of applications for state-funded education are: Kharkiv region – 809 students, Odesa region – 435 students, and Khmelnytsky region – 426 students.
Where are the most companies with medical licenses?
Almost 14 thousand companies have the right to practice medicine in Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MoH) as of mid-October 2024. In 2024, 16% more medical licenses were issued than in the same period last year. Nursing, healthcare organization and management, and therapy are in demand. Every fifth licensed medical company is located in Kyiv.
13,887 companies and 28,054 sole proprietors have received licenses from the Ministry of Health. You cancheck whether a medical institution is legally operating and has the right to provide medical services in the Openatabot.
However, since the Ministry of Health does not publish TINs of sole proprietors, it is currently impossible to check whether such an entrepreneur has a medical license.
The peak of medical licenses was in 2019: 910 companies in 9 months. Since then, the number of new permits to work in the medical field has only been decreasing.
355 medical licenses have been issued to Ukrainian companies since the beginning of the year. This is 16.4% more than in the same period in 2023, but still less than before the full-scale war. During the same period in 2021, 670 licenses were issued.
Most of the issued medical licenses are valid: 81,1%.
Most licenses were issued for nursing – 87% of the total number of companies. Healthcare organization and management is next (81%), and therapy is the most popular (39%). It should be noted that one company can hold licenses for several areas.
Ultrasound diagnostics (30.6%), neurology (28.3%), obstetrics and gynecology (27.7%), and dentistry (26.9%) are somewhat less popular.
However, there are also areas that are almost not in demand. For example, forensic psychiatric examination or such narrow fields as forensic toxicology and cytology – only a few companies have licenses in these areas.
In general, most medical companies with valid licenses operate in Kyiv – 20%. This is followed by Dnipropetrovs’k region (8%), Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkiv regions (6% each).
The list of the largest licensed companies by revenue includes a large number of businesses that do not have a leading medical business. Mostly, these are companies that offer medical services to their employees. For example, the top company is Nibulon, one of the leaders of the Opendatabot’s Rating of the Largest Employers in Ukraine, which had UAH 22.9 billion in revenue last year.
“Obtaining a medical license was necessitated by the need to have professional medical support for the employees of the Transshipment Terminal in Mykolaiv, the largest facility in NIBULON’s network of transshipment complexes and elevators.
Since then, we have a first aid room here, which now provides services to employees, primarily to drivers of the company’s own vehicles at the stages of pre-trip and post-trip inspection,” comments Yana Romanenko, HR Director at NIBULON.
However, there are companies in the top that provide medical care to everyone – this is the M.T.K. Medical Center with a turnover of 4.2 billion in 2023.
Also, the top companies are Dobrobut Polyclinic Medical Center with a revenue of UAH 2.2 billion, Dila Medical Laboratory, which earned UAH 2 billion, and Cinevo Ukraine with a turnover of UAH 1.9 billion.
It is worth noting that the top list also includes pharmaceutical companies such as: “Darnitsa, Kyivmedpreparat, Zdorovye, and Borshchahivskiy Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant.
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Dnipro Switch Plant JSC (DnSZ, Dnipro), a major Ukrainian manufacturer of turnouts for mainline railways, doubled its net profit in January-September to UAH 296.6 million compared to the same period in 2023.
According to the company’s financial report on its website, net sales revenue for the period increased by 47.8% to UAH 1 billion 585 million.
From operating activities, the company earned UAH 394.8 million in profit (up 9.4%), and gross profit amounted to almost UAH 607 million (+19.3%).
According to the company’s report for the first half of the year, its net profit increased by 57.7% to UAH 114.3 million in January-June 2023, while net income increased by 13.6% to UAH 641.3 million.
Thus, in the third quarter of 2024, the plant increased its net profit by 2.4 times year-on-year to UAH 182.4 million, while net revenue increased by 85.8% to UAH 943.6 million.
Founded in 1916, DnSZ currently produces various types of turnouts for mainline and industrial transport, subways, and track superstructure elements.
The company has a full production cycle, including its own design bureau.
The plant ended 2023 with a net profit of UAH 510.86 million, up 52% year-on-year in 2022, with revenue up 77% to UAH 1 billion 790 million.
In 2023, the company shipped 410 turnouts, 2.33 thousand frame rails and 1.59 thousand individual crosspieces.
The share of exports was 10.4%, with the main importing countries being: Germany, the Baltic States, Turkey, and Georgia.
The average number of employees at the plant was 606 at the beginning of this year.
In 2023, Ukraine exported 45.8 thousand tons of honey to the European Union, with 28% of imports of this product from Ukraine, said Olena Dadus, Deputy Director of the Agrarian Development Department of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
“The markets of the European Union are key for honey exports, as Ukraine is the second largest exporter of honey to the EU, accounting for 28% of all imports of this product by the bloc. According to the Register of Export Capacities, about 72 Ukrainian enterprises are engaged in the supply of honey abroad,” the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food quoted her as saying at the Honey Forum ”European Integration of the Ukrainian Honey Industry: Challenges and Opportunities.”
According to the State Customs Service and the State Statistics Committee, honey exports in 2023 amounted to 55.4 thousand tons worth $121.4 million, including 45.8 thousand tons (93.6% of total exports) worth $94.9 million. At the same time, in the first half of 2024, honey exports to the EU amounted to 40.6 thousand tons worth $70.7 million.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy recalled that the main countries of honey export in 2023 were the European Union (Germany, Poland, Spain, France, Belgium, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Greece) and the United States.
As reported, as part of Ukraine’s association with the European Union, Ukrainian companies were entitled to supply 18.507 thousand tons of honey to the EU market free of duty starting June 5, 2024. After this volume was exhausted, the EU resumed quotas on August 21. From January 1, 2025, and until June 5, 2025, a new tariff quota will be introduced, which corresponds to 5/12 of the threshold set for the emergency braking.
