Allseeds group of companies is finalizing the construction of vegetable oil tanks at its terminal in Yuzhny seaport (Odesa region) in order to increase their storage capacity to 132,000 tonnes. At the loading rate of 1,300 tonnes of oil per hour, a 50,000 tonnes tanker will be full in just 40 hours, according to the group’s press release.
Allseeds in the nearest future is also planning to increase the total storage capacity of its vegetable oil terminal up to 200,000 tonnes.
According to the information on the group’s website, the storage capacity of its vegetable oil terminal is 42,000 tonnes.
Allseeds Group was founded in 2010.
The volume of sales of services by telecommunications and postal communications enterprises in Ukraine in January-June 2018 amounted to UAH 34.82 billion, which in absolute prices is higher than the level of H1 2017 by 11%, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
According to its data, the volume of services provided to the population amounted to UAH 20.6 billion, or 59.15% of the total volume of services sold, which is 13.4% up from the same period last year.
At the same time, in comparable prices compared to H1 2017 the volume of services sold as a whole increased by 2% and in terms of providing services to the population grew by 2.9%.
In particular, in absolute prices in H1 2018 the volume of sales of postal and courier services grew by 31%, to UAH 2.75 billion, of which services rendered to the population amounted to UAH 785 million, which is 27.2% up from the same period last year.
The volume of sales of mobile communications services in January-June 2018 grew by 7.4%, to UAH 18.25 billion, of which services provided to the public amounted to UAH 12.71 billion (14.56% up from the same period in 2016).
The volume of sales of Internet services in H1 2018 also rose by 17% and amounted to UAH 6.2 billion, of which the population was provided with services worth UAH 4.22 billion (19.8% up from H1 2017).
Ukraine’s Minister of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Utilities Hennadiy Zubko has set up a commission to select independent members of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Energy Efficiency Fund. The commission starts work on August 29, according to the ministry.
Six representatives from the European Union, Germany and Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers are on the commission. The members include Head of Operations Section 3 “Economic Cooperation, Energy, Infrastructure and Environment” of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine Johannes Baur, Member of the Support Group for Ukraine (SGUA) Krzysztof Gierulski, and Project Manager of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Robert Kuenne.
Deputy Regional Development Minister Eduard Kruhliak, Deputy Finance Minister Yuriy Heletiy and Director of the economic development department of the Cabinet’s Secretariat Valentyna Yashchuk are also members of the commission. According to the Regional Development Ministry’s press service, the Hudson recruiting company will also be hired.
The press release said the commission would determine requirements for candidates and define the list of documents for participating in the competition, as well as the procedure and stages of selection, including criteria for evaluating members of the fund’s supervisory board.
As earlier reported, the Regional Development Ministry had planned to announce the competition in September. Ukrainian associations of apartment building coops may be able to apply for the fund’s energy efficiency programs from 2019.
On July 25, the Regional Development Ministry registered state-run the Ukrainian Energy Efficiency Fund in the United State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations. Yulia Holovatiuk-Ungureanu was appointed acting fund director. On July 26, the Cabinet decided to increase the fund’s charter capital by UAH 1.5 billion, to UAH 1.6 billion, using budget funds.
PJSC Odesa Cable Works (Odesakabel) has launched a new production facility for the production of modern LAN cables, the company’s press service said. “One of the latest investments was the acquisition of modern equipment for the production of LAN cables from the world’s leading brands: NIEHOFF (Germany) and SETIC (France),” the company emphasized.
The new LAN cables production complex was launched on August 21, 2018.
The plant emphasizes that the commissioning of the complex will allow the enterprise to increase output by 70%, or 5,000 km of cable per month, while quality will meet the highest international standards.
Odesakabel is the largest cable factory in Ukraine. It produces optical fiber cables, LAN cables, radio frequency cables, telecoms cables, power cables, wires and cords.
The transport enterprises of Ukraine in January-July 2018 reduced transportation of goods by 1% compared to January-July 2017, to 356.3 million tonnes. According to the State Statistics Service, freight turnover for this period decreased by 1.7%, to 191.3 billion tonne-kilometers.
According to statistical data, in January-July 2018 railways transported 185.4 million tonnes of cargo inside the country and for export, which is 4.4% less than in January-July 2017.
Transportation of coal decreased by 9.7%, oil and petroleum products by 12.4%, grain and cereals by 15.4%, cement by 5%, construction materials by 7.2%, and timber by 6.2%. At the same time, the handling of coke grew by 0.4%, ferrous metals by 2.6%, chemical and mineral fertilizers by 6%, iron and manganese ore by 4%, and scrap metal by 5.7%.
Product pumping through pipelines in January-July 2018 in comparison with January-July 2017 declined by 2.1%, to 64.4 million tonnes.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has called on the leaders of foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine to contribute to the fight against smuggling. “Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has urged the heads of diplomatic institutions of Ukraine abroad to join the campaign announced by the government dubbed “Ukraine without smuggling” by prompt response to cases of illegal actions and by providing information on the movement of goods taking into account their present price,” the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers said on the results of the meeting of the premier with heads of foreign diplomatic institutions in Kyiv on Tuesday.
Groysman, in particular, asked the diplomats to respond to the requests of the State Fiscal Service, customs office, law enforcement system and facilitate the rapid receipt of information from international partners.
