Biosecurity agencies of India have decided to open the Indian market for Ukrainian apples, the Ukrsadprom association has reported on its website.
According to the report, Ukrainian apples harvested in 2018 can already be delivered to India, if the established phytosanitary conditions are observed. The Indian side determined the special conditions for supply of Ukrainian apples, in particular, keeping them until shipment from Ukraine at a temperature of 0 centigrade for 13 days, which should be indicated in the phytosanitary certificate.
“The opening of the Indian market for Ukrainian apples is the number one event not only for gardeners, but also for Ukraine as a whole. India is able to completely replace the Russian market, which was the main one for Ukrainian apples until 2014, and also would lead to the need to improve the technology of growing and storage, which was not required for the Russian market, since the time of transportation to India is about a month,” Head of the Ukrsadprom association Dmytro Kroshka said.
In addition, in his opinion, this will lead to the development of maritime logistics of fruits when exporting from Ukraine, will give the opportunity of significantly increasing the trade turnover between Ukraine and India, given the volume and significantly higher cost of Ukrainian apples compared to, for example, grain crops exported to India.
Ukrainian metal and mining enterprises in January-September 2018 tentatively increased rolled steel output by 3% year-over-year, to 13.844 million tonnes. According to the Ukrmetallurgprom association, steel smelting grew by 1%, to 15.767 million tonnes, and cast iron output increased by 5%, to 15.288 million tonnes.
The production figures of enterprises in January-September 2018 were higher in comparison with the same period in 2017 not taking into account two months of work of the enterprises in the Ukrainian government’s uncontrolled area: rolled steel output grew by 6%, steel – by 4%, and cast iron – by 9%. In September 2018, Ukrainian metal companies produced 1.657 million tonnes of cast iron (96.3% to the previous month), 1.787 million tonnes of steel (100%), and 1.57 million tonnes of rolled steel (103%).
As reported, Ukrainian metal and mining enterprises in 2017, taking into account the two months of operation of the enterprises on the government uncontrolled areas, reduced steel output by 12% year-over-year, to 21.284 million tonnes, rolled steel – by 14%, to 18.439 million tonnes, and cast iron – by 15%, to 20.035 million tonnes. In 2016, Ukraine boosted steel output by 6% year-over-year, to 24.2 million tonnes, cast iron – by 8%, to 23.6 million tonnes, and rolled steel – by 6%, to 21.4 million tonnes.
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The Ukrainian tour operator GTO Travel and Kazakh Kompas have announced a merger and the beginning of work under the single brand Kompas.
Kompas CEO Anna Solovyova said at a press conference in Kyiv the company’s cooperation has begun and has been successfully continuing for several years.
“We have been cooperating for several years, during which we have implemented joint projects and gradually came to consolidation. This is not a new stage, it’s just an official announcement to become more transparent,” she said.
According to her, Kompas is committed to a transparent business.
“We have far-reaching plans. Of course, not this year and not the next one, but I want to get to an IPO, this is goal number one for me. I want to make tourism transparent and honest. We are striving for this. Therefore we are trying to consolidate and open up,” she said, noting that in 2017 the company entered the Kyrgyz market.
According to Head of GTO Travel Mykhailo Tiurin, the GTO Travel brand will be removed from use.
“It looks like the investment of the Kazakh tour operator in the Ukrainian one. The legal entity in Ukraine won’t change, it will include new founders, a consolidated management body will appear,” he said.
GTO Travel tour operator (Kyiv) was established in 2004. Its founders are Mykhailo Tiurin, Volodymyr Tiurin, Olena Tiurina, and Oleksandr Tiurin.
The company sends tourists to 61 countries.
The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) has placed information about Euro Ukrposhta LLC (Chernivtsi) and Sky Logistics LLC (Kyiv) to the unified public register of postal operators.
According to a posting on the website of the commission, the decision was made on October 2, 2018.
Euro Ukrposhta provides services for receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal money transfers throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories) as well as internationally from the territory of the European Union and the Middle East: Israel, Turkey, Egypt and Syria.
Sky Logistics provides services of receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal orders throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories).
According to the public register of companies and individual entrepreneurs, Euro Ukrposhta has a charter capital of UAH 5,000 and registered in Chernivtsi. The company’s owners are two individuals: Roman Makoviychuk and Oleksandr Timush.
The company Sky Logistics has a charter capital of UAH 48,000 and registered in Kyiv. Its founder is individual Oleksiy Hryniuk.
In February, PJSC Ukrposhta turned to Euro-Ukrposhte LLC with a proposal to inform its customers that the latter is not related to the state-owned enterprise.
EURO UKRPOSHTA, POSTAL OPERATORS, REGISTERS, REGULATOR, SKY LOGISTICS
