KYIV. Aug 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrainian rolled metal products market grew by 34.8% in January-June 2016 year-over-year, to 1.93 million tonnes, not taking into account pipes or to 2.15 million tonnes with pipe production, private joint-stock company Ukrainian Mining-Metal Company (Kyiv) has said in a press release.
Over the period growth in imported goods supplies was 58%, to 31,000 tonnes.
“In H1 2016, the imports goods share was 16.3% compared to 13.9% in H1 2015. The upward trend was seen in supplies of beam channels (a rise of 90.8%), angles (a rise of 21.4%), channel bars (a rise of 36%), hot-rolled steel (a rise of 52.6%), galvanized steel (a rise of 56.5%), cold-rolled steel (a rise of 42.5%), rods (a rise of 18.2%0 and grids (a rise of 32.1%),” the press service said.
According to data from state-run enterprise Ukrpromzovnishekspertyza, 2.37 million tonnes of Ukrainian rolled steel in 2015, 740,000 tonnes of imported rolled steel, and in 2014 – 3.22 million tonnes and 1.13 million tonnes respectively.
Ukrainian Mining-Metal Company was founded in 1998. It is a leader among Ukrainian metal traders in rolled steel and pipe sales.
KYIV. Aug 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Newly appointed Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine Ernst Wolfgang Reichel presented the copies of his credentials to Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration of Ukraine Olena Dzerkal on August 1, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on its website.
According to German media, Reichel has worked as the German Foreign Ministry’s envoy for the Southeastern Europe, Turkey and the countries of the European Free Trade Association since July 2013.
From 2012 to 2016, Christof Weil served as the German ambassador in Kyiv.
KYIV. Aug 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Sahaidatska agricultural firm (Kirovohrad region) will invest about UAH 11 million in a dairy farm.
According to the website of Kirovohrad Regional State Administration, the project to construct and reconstruct the premises of the dairy farm is implemented on the site of a former poultry farm, where some buildings of the agricultural company were rebuilt and re-equipped. The company continues reconstruction of the former poultry farm to keep heifers.
The automated dairy farm complex will be able to hold 600 cows when the work is finished.
The launch of the first stage of the farm is scheduled for autumn 2016.
Now the company’s total stock is 400 animals.
Sahaidatska agricultural firm cultivates about 2,000 hectares of farmland in Ustynivka district in Kirovohrad region. The major crops are barley, corn, and sunflower.
KYIV. Aug 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Iran will mull Ukraine’s proposal about the possibility of transiting Iranian oil through the Ukrainian pipeline system to Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Zangeneh has said after talks with Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk in Tehran on August 1.
According to the Iran Petroleum Ministry, Tehran is also ready to start cooperation in oil supplies directly to Ukraine, despite the fact that Ukrainian oil refining capacities are small and the country imports fuel.
The Iranian media resources IRNA and Shana added Kyiv have asked Tehran to consider the possibility of Iranian gas transit through the Ukrainian territory.
Zangeneh said Ukraine is attractive in its advanced power engineering industry. The parties are currently working on cooperation in the field of turbines and gas compressors.
KYIV. Aug 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The profit of Credit Agricole Bank (Kyiv) in January-June 2016 amounted to UAH 316 million, which is 26.9% more than in the corresponding period of 2015 (UAH 249 million).
“According to interim financial statements, Credit Agricole Bank (Ukraine) in the first half of 2016 saw a net profit of UAH 316 million, which is UAH 67 million more than in the first half of 2015,” reads a posting on the bank’s website.
According to the report, this financial result was achieved due to stable revenues and lower risk costs: the cost of risks decreased significantly compared to the same period of 2015, by 19%, or UAH 125 million. Reduction in risk costs reflects the improvement of the environment. At the same time, the bank continued its conservative policy of reserve formation, which entailed the increase in the NPL coverage ratio from 71% at the beginning of 2016 to 77% at the end of the first half of 2016.
The ratio of regulatory capital adequacy at the end of June 2016 reached 17.84%, far exceeding the NBU norm of 10%.
Credit Agricole Bank was founded in 1993. Credit Agricole S.A. on January 1, 2016 owned a 99.9961% stake in PJSC Credit Agricole Bank.
KYIV. Aug 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The United Nations has published E-Government Development Index-2016 (EGDI), according to which Ukraine is 62nd among 193 countries and climbed by 25 points compared to 2014, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.
“I think and I have always thought that e-technologies are an effective tool to provide for transparency and efficiency of authorities in modern conditions, fighting corruption, increasing the quality of servicing and attracting citizens. That’s why wherever I worked – in the city council, parliament and government – I have always actively worked on their introduction,” Groysman wrote on his Facebook page late on Saturday.
He said that Ukraine’s climbing in the rating is an important achievement.
Commenting on the further introduction of e-technologies by Ukrainian authorities, the prime minister said that today first e-government development is among top priorities at the national level.
“The top priority action plan says what must be done and achieved this year and then next three years, in particular, in the following directions: open data development, electronic procurement, electronic services, electronic relations, electronic identification and other things,” he wrote.
