Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of January 21
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will make a working visit to Israel through January 23-24 to take part in the events as a part of the World Holocaust Forum, the President’s Office reported. “Through January 23-24, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will make a working visit to Israel to take part in the commemoration events as a part of the World Holocaust Forum devoted to the 75th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp,” reads the report.
The program also foresee talks of Zelensky with the Israeli leadership and a meeting with the country’s business leaders.
Ukraine in January-November 2019 bought nuclear fuel for a total amount of $356.088 million.
According to the State Statistics Service, over the 11 months, Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP) bought Russian-made fuel worth $200.108 million, fuel from Sweden for $155.98 million.
Thus, the share of nuclear fuel bought by Ukraine for the indicated period from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms was 56.2%, while that from Westinghouse (Sweden) stood at 43.8%.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 21/01/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Kyiv) during the current winter holidays transported more than 3.3 million passengers in long-distance and high-speed trains, which is 6.5% more than last year (3.1 million).
According to the company’s press service, Ukrzaliznytsia put on 49 additional passenger trains for this period, which carried out 403 trips. These trains transported 474,000 passengers.
In addition, 2.2 million people were transported by year-round trains, 336,000 by high-speed trains, and 263,000 by regional trains.
Ukraine’s coal producers reduced output by 6.2% in 2019 to 31.224 million tonnes.
The Energy and Environment Protection Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine that the output of steam coal decreased by 9.4% to 24.901 million tonnes, but coking coal production increased by 8.8% to 6.323 million tonnes.
A total of 2.813 million tonnes of coal was produced in December, which was 0.1% less year-on-year.
Coal mining enterprises managed by the Energy and Environment Protection Ministry reduced production by 13.9% to 3.566 million tonnes last year. Steam coal output shrank 24% to 2.719 million tonnes, though coking coal production rose by 51%, to 846,100 tonnes.
The mines of Donetsk region produced 11.259 million tonnes of coal, growth of 1.3%, Luhansk region some 328,800 tonnes, a decrease of 33.2%, and Dnipropetrovsk region some 18.208 million tonnes, or 9% less.
Ukraine decreased coal production by 4.7% in 2018, compared with 2017, to 33.286 million tonnes.
