The third container train from China on a new route, which delivered 41 forty-foot containers with shoes, non-ferrous metal products, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, consumer goods and other combined cargo, arrived at the Kyiv-Lisky station.
The press service of Ukrzaliznytsia reported last week, the company has already received 17 trains from different regions of China. These trains run from Wuhan and Jinannan and carry 43 containers with various cargoes: magnesium sulfate, equipment, aluminum frames, disposable syringes, PET bottles and light industrial products.
Trains cover the distance of transportation, which is more than 9,000 km across the territory of four countries, in 15 days.
Ukrzaliznytsia will continue receiving trains from China according to a new logistics scheme with a further increase in their frequency.
“The introduction of new logistics schemes for the transportation of goods allows attracting additional cargo flows and opens up new opportunities for the users of transport services to deliver goods to their destination. This work is carried out together with the solution of pressing issues regarding tariff policy, technical re-equipment, improving the technology of the transportation process and services,” the company said.
Ukrzaliznytsia added that its branch Lisky center of transport service plans to continue active work on identifying new promising routes for container trains.
Kozliv distillery (Ternopil region) of the state-owned enterprise Ukrspyrt at an online auction on Friday, November 13, was acquired by Business Initiatives LLC (Kyiv) for UAH 59 million.
According to the information on the website ProZorro.Sales, the starting price of the distillery was UAH 37.57 million. The facility was put up for auction for the first time. Two companies took part in the auction.
The daily production capacity of the enterprise is 4,200 decaliters of alcohol. It was founded in 1772, and modernized in 2020. Production at the distillery is temporarily suspended.
According to the unified public register of legal entities and private entrepreneurs, Tetiana Maksymova is the ultimate beneficiary of Business Initiatives LLC. The company is engaged in consulting on informatization issues.
As of November 12, Ukrainian agricultural producers harvested 75.2 million tonnes of basic crops from an area of 22.8 million hectares, in particular, 57.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were harvested from an area of about 14.1 million hectares (92% forecast).
According to a report on the website of the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture, 21.4 million tonnes of corn was harvested from an area of 4.3 million hectares (78%), 12.9 million tonnes of sunflower from 6.3 million hectares (99%), 2.6 million tonnes of soybeans from 1.3 million hectares (94%), 241,700 tonnes of millet from 148,600 hectares (99%) and 104,700 tonnes of buckwheat from 77,800 hectares (99%).
Some 6.7 million tonnes of sugar beet was dug from an area of 161,600 hectares (75%).
As reported, the Economy Ministry predicted the grain harvest in 2020 at 68 million tonnes. Of the early grains, the following have already been threshed: 25.1 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 6.6 million hectares; 7.8 million tonnes of barley from 2.4 million hectares; 516,200 tonnes of peas from 238,000 hectares; 2.56 million tonnes of rapeseed from 1.1 million hectares.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 16/11/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of November 16
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
The metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine in January-October this year increased consumption of natural gas by 1% compared to the same period last year, to 1.55 billion cubic meters.
According to the information of the Ukrmetalurgprom association, electricity consumption by metallurgical enterprises during this period amounted to about 9.12 billion kWh (96% compared to January-October 2019).
As reported, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises in 2019 reduced natural gas consumption by 2% compared to 2018, to 1.8 billion cubic meters. Electricity consumption
