The volume of construction work in Ukraine in February 2020 decreased 2.8% compared with February 2019 and amounted to UAH 15.7 billion.
According to the State Statistics Service, in February, the volume of construction work increased by 11.1% compared to the previous month (according to the seasonally adjusted data, it decreased by 2.7%), while compared to December 2019 this figure fell by 8.7%.
According to the statistics agency, in February 2020 from February 2019 the volume of work increased in non-residential construction and decreased in residential and engineering. According to unadjusted data, the growth in non-residential construction was 12.5%. The reduction in construction volumes in building engineering structures amounted to 8.7% and residential construction some 0.2%.
At the same time, the share of new construction in the total volume of completed construction works amounted to 48.8%, repairs to 24.7%, reconstruction and technical re-equipment to 26.5%.
In January-February 2020 compared with January-February 2019, a decrease in the volume of construction work was recorded in nine regions, in particular, in Sumy (by 30.1%, to UAH 143.2 million), Odesa (by 29.4%, to UAH 814.6 million), and Luhansk (by 18.7%, to UAH 31.7 million).
The largest growth in construction work in January-February was recorded in Rivne (by 43%, to UAH 258 million), Kirovohrad (by 33.8%, to UAH 145 million), and Ivano-Frankivsk (by 33%, to UAH 293 million) regions.
The volume of construction work in Kyiv in January-February 2020 fell by 0.9% and amounted to UAH 4 billion.
The data are given excluding the occupied territory of Crimea and the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The costs of agricultural production in Ukraine in January-February 2020 decreased by 7.2% compared to the same period in 2019.
According to the State Statistics Service, the cost of producing crops in January-February fell by 7.8%, livestock products by 6.8%, material and technical resources of industrial origin used in agriculture by 8.4%
At the same time, according to the State Statistics Service, the cost of agricultural production in February compared to the previous month increased by 0.2%. Thus, the costs of crop production decreased 1%, livestock production increased 3.2%, and material and technical resources decreased 1.9%.
As reported, the cost of agricultural production in Ukraine in 2019 decreased by 0.64% compared to 2018.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a four-year loan of EUR7.5 million to Bank Lviv for lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) under the EU4Business program, Anton Usov, the EBRD senior adviser on external affairs, has said.
“Small and medium-sized enterprises in western Ukraine will benefit from a new loan of up to EUR7.5 million to Bank Lviv provided under the EBRD EU4Business credit line. The loan will be available for disbursement in the Ukrainian hryvnia, which will protect Bank Lviv’s borrowers from foreign currency-related risks, and offer long maturities,” the EBRD noted.
“The funds are provided in the context of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine. EU grants will be offered as investment incentives to eligible enterprises to reduce the cost of their capital expenditure on upgrades of technology and production processes to comply with EU standards and regulations,” it said on its website.
Bank Lviv is a regional bank providing banking services to SMEs and private clients across western Ukraine. It is well established in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Rivne, Ternopil and Uzhgorod regions, as well as Kyiv.
The EBRD is a leading institutional investor in Ukraine and to date has committed more than EUR14.54 billion in over 460 projects to the country.
The number of Green Card international insurance contracts signed by the member companies of the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU) increased by 21.72% in January-February 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, to more than 59,536.
According to the MTIBU’s website, the amount of accrued insurance premiums for the indicated period decreased by 10.93% compared to the same period last year, to UAH 271 million.
At the same time, the amount of compensation paid on claims increased by 2.1 times, to EUR 2.704 million, while the number of claims paid by 87.7%, to 1,115.
The MTIBU is the only association of insurers that carry out compulsory insurance of vehicle owners’ civil liability for harm caused to third parties.
UNIQA Insurance Company (Kyiv) in 2019 increased its net worth by 23%, to UAH 529.741 million, according to a draft decision of the company’s shareholders for a meeting scheduled for April 23.
According to the document, the company’s assets in 2019 decreased by 22.7%, to UAH 2.432 billion.
The draft decision states that the company last year posted a net profit of UAH 89 million, which is 3.5 times more than in 2018. Retained earnings for the year amounted to UAH 326.8 million. which is 34.9% more.
The charter capital has not changed and amounted to UAH 155.48 million.
Total debtor indebtedness decreased by 3.9 times, to UAH 282.7 billion, cash and cash equivalents by 2.9 times, to UAH 30.4 million.
Long-term liabilities decreased by 10%, to UAH 1.6 billion, current liabilities by 3.8 times, to UAH 300.1 million.
UNIQA Insurance Company was founded in 1994. It joined UNIQA Group Austria in 2006.
On Thursday, April 2, at 12:00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host an online conference by the companies-members of the Association of Medications Manufacturers of Ukraine that initiate development and introduction of a complex program on pharmaceutical security of Ukraine. The conference will be broadcast online at: https://youtu.be/BKb0m6MEvNo. Participants include President of the Association of Medications Manufacturers of Ukraine Petro Bahriy; member of the Supervisory Board of PJSC Farmak Oleh Siarkevych; Commercial Director of PJSC Borschahivsky Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant Yevhen Sova; Director of the Interchim Trading House Oleksandr Chumak; Chairwoman of PrJSC Indar Insulin Production Liubov Vyshnevska; General Director of Yuri-Farm LLC Dmytro Derkach (8/5a Reitarska Street). Please, send your questions to the speakers by e-mail: urakin@interfax.kiev.ua, during online broadcast: https://youtu.be/4bugsdLbgqY.
