Hortex, a Polish producer of frozen fruit, berries and vegetables, has left Russia.
The new owner of Ortika Frozen Foods, which represented Hortex’s interests in Russia, is fish producer and supplier Agama Group, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities showed. Agama Group is equally owned by Yury Alasheyev and Igor Lysenkov.
Hortex’s website said that the company’s brand is the leader on the frozen fruit, berries and vegetables market in Central and Eastern Europe, and its products are also sold in other regions of the world. The company had three plants in Russia, including two in Moscow Region and one in Karelia.
Ortika Frozen Foods posted a net loss of 12 million rubles in 2021 on revenue of 1.14 billion rubles, compared to a loss of 12.973 million rubles and revenue of 1.023 billion rubles in 2020.
The beginning of the national multi-subject test (NMT) in Ukraine and abroad for all participants is determined by Kyiv time, according to the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Evaluation (UCQO).
“The start of the national multi-subject test (NMT) in Ukraine and abroad for all participants is determined by Kyiv time. Participants who are abroad need to take this into account. Please note that the start time of the NMT is local time in most countries where it is provided the test in the first shift in Vienna (Austria) you need to arrive at the temporary examination center no later than 08:50 local time, by one or two hours,” the press release says. -UTSOKO services.
The Assessment Center recommends that the participants, in order not to be late for testing, find out the time difference between Kyiv and the locality of the country where they will undergo NMT; arrive at the temporary examination center before the start of testing at the local time of the country, which corresponds to the Kyiv time specified in the invitation.
“Remember that if you are late, you will not be able to take part in the testing,” the department emphasizes.
The Solotvyno territorial community, the initiator of the creation of the recently registered industrial park (IP) “Maramuresh” (Transcarpathian region), intends to attract up to 20 woodworking and furniture industries, with which preliminary negotiations have already been held, People’s Deputy Dmitry Kisilevsky said.
“There is still a field with a total area of 33.2 hectares on the outskirts of the village on its (park – IF-U) territory. But, after talking with the chairman of the community, Vasily Yovdiy, I was firmly convinced that in a year or two this territory could become a powerful industrial center,” he wrote on Facebook on Friday after visiting the community.
According to Kisilevsky, the first investors in the IP should be companies from neighboring Romania.
“If these plans are implemented, Maramuresh will create 3,000 new jobs for the Solotvyno community with a salary of at least UAH 15,000 per month,” the report says.
Kisilevsky writes that Transcarpathians, who now work “literally across the river” at Romanian enterprises, will be able to fill the vacancies, and Yovdiy expects to create prerequisites for the return of 10-12 thousand inhabitants of the community from abroad.
“The main highlight of Maramuresh should be a new cargo customs checkpoint between Ukraine and Romania, the construction of which is now being discussed between the countries. Convenient logistics will create unique opportunities for the industrial park,” the people’s deputy wrote.
As reported, IE “Maramuresh” was included in the Register of industrial (industrial) parks on June 3, 2022. The estimated amount of investment in its creation, according to the concept, is UAH 2.83 billion, including UAH 352 million in infrastructure development.
On June 21, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in general bills on tax and customs benefits for industrial parks.
“As the initiator and co-author of these laws, I look forward to their signing by the president in the near future,” Kisilevsky wrote.
furniture industries, Solotvinskaya community, Transcarpathian region, woodworking
The governmental emergency response team of Ukraine CERT-UA, operating under the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, warns of the intensification of online fraud using the topic of “monetary compensation”,
“A number of fraudulent pages have been discovered on the Facebook social network, containing a link to the so-called “Unified Compensation Center for the Return of Unpaid Funds,” the State Special Communications Service reports.
According to the message, this resource offers to provide personal information and make an additional payment. If these requirements are met, the payment card data will be compromised.
The Canadian Foreign Ministry announced the introduction of new sanctions against Russia in response to the ongoing military aggression against Ukraine.
“On July 14, 2022, Canada made further amendments to the rules on special economic measures (Russia) to prohibit the provision of two production services to the Russian oil and gas, chemical and manufacturing industries,” the document said on the ministry’s website.
It is noted that eight new industries from these sectors have been added to the sanctions list.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “any person in Canada and any Canadian outside of Canada is prohibited from providing services to Russia or any person in Russia” related to the production of metal products, computer, electronic and optical products, electrical equipment, cars, trailers and semi-trailers, transport equipment, land transport and pipelines.
Ukrainian enterprises in January-June of this year reduced the export of ferrous scrap by 8 times compared to the same period last year – to 28.74 thousand tons.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS), in monetary terms, the export of scrap metal over this period decreased by 6.8 times – to $12.24 million.
At the same time, 6 months the country reduced the import of scrap metal in physical terms by 8.1 times – up to 1.55 thousand tons. In monetary terms, the import of scrap decreased 6.8 times to $3.28 million.
The import of scrap metal in January-June was carried out mainly from Turkey (78.89% of deliveries in monetary terms), the Russian Federation (14.09%) and Cyprus (5.4%); export – to Turkey (61.35%), Poland (12.49%) and Germany (9.45%).
In addition, in January-June 2022, Ukrainian steel enterprises did not import products of direct reduction of iron from ore under code 7203 – hot briquetted iron (HBI), which is a substitute for pig iron and scrap metal, but exported 258 tons of this product to India (100%) in the amount of $48 thousand
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 increased the export of scrap metal by 17.2 times compared to the previous year – up to 615.69 thousand tons. In monetary terms, the export of scrap metal increased 25.2 times – up to $238.90 million.
In 2021, the country reduced the import of scrap metal in physical terms by 13.1% to 22.96 thousand tons. In monetary terms, the import of scrap increased by 72.4% to $44.88 million.
The import of scrap metal in 2021 was carried out mainly from Turkey (60.42% of deliveries in monetary terms), the Russian Federation (33.44%) and Belarus (1.57%); export – to Turkey (84.85%), Romania (6.66%) and Poland (3.45%).
In addition, Ukrainian steel enterprises in 2021 imported from the Russian Federation 1.60 thousand tons of products of direct reduction of iron from ore under code 7203 – hot briquetted iron (HBI), which is a substitute for pig iron and scrap metal, in the amount of $653 thousand, while in 2020 – 2.65 thousand tons for $805 thousand. At the same time, the export of these products to India amounted to 288 tons for $91 thousand.
