Ukraine in January-September 2019 acquired nuclear fuel for a total amount of $259.132 million.
According to the State Statistics Service, in the nine months, Russian-made fuel for $158.496 million was purchased for Ukrainian nuclear power plants, while fuel worth $100.636 million was bought from Sweden.
Thus, the share of Ukrainian purchases of nuclear fuel for the indicated period from TVEL (Russia) in monetary terms amounted to 61.2%, from Westinghouse (Sweden) some 38.8%
The Ukrainian low cost airline SkyUp Airlines (Kyiv) will launch direct flights from Kyiv to Pisa (Italy) from April 1, 2020.
According to the press service of the airline, flights will be operated twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The cost of a one-way ticket without baggage is from UAH 1,667.
SkyUp Airlines LLC was registered in Kyiv in June 2016. The founder is ACS-Ukraine LLC of Tetiana and Yuriy Alba, who also own the JoinUp! tour operator.
According to the unified register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiaries of SkyUp are Oleksandr (50%) and Yuriy (50%) Alba.
The company began charter flights from the end of May 2018.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 25/11/19
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of November 25
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
The mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), working in Ukraine during November 14-22, has said that it had constructive and fruitful discussions with representatives of Ukrainian authorities, although more discussions in the near future are needed for signing the Staff Level Agreement.
The mission has made significant further progress in discussions regarding measures and reforms that could form the basis of a new program supported by the IMF. Discussions will continue in the coming weeks, mission Head Ron van Rooden said in a statement released on Saturday.
Among the necessary steps discussed are measures in the monetary, fiscal and financial sectors, as well as reforms aimed at improving the business climate, strengthening the rule of law and boosting economic growth.
According to the statement, the IMF mission commended the significant progress made over the past few months towards reform and adhering to a balanced economic policy.
KMZ Industries (Karlivka Machine Building Plant, Poltava region) has won a tender for the supply of elevator equipment for a farm in Romania, which will be the first integrated supply of enterprise to the country of the European Union. According to information on KMZ Industries’ website, the production of elevator equipment (silos, transport and cleaning equipment) has already begun as part of the order, which will be delivered to the customer for installation in 2.5 months. At the same time, the value of the contract was not disclosed.
The press service of the company told Interfax-Ukraine that, in addition to local firms, large international companies such as AGI, Simaga and others, participated in the tender. In addition, this will be the first supply of Ukrainian elevator equipment to the EU.
“The agreement with the Romanian farm provides for the integrated supply of equipment for storing grain for further processing on the fish feed production line. This is a small amount compared to our orders, but very significant for us. In addition, the agrarian received partial funding for this supply from European funds who put forward very serious requirements for the quality of the equipment being financed,” Oleksandr Tkachenko, the head of the export business of KMZ Industries, said.
According to him, the plant plans to expand cooperation in this region.
