Japan is considering opening Asian markets to Ukrainian agricultural products, particularly chicken meat, said Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori at a meeting with Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky.
“Ambassador Matsuda Kuninori said that the Japanese side has confirmed the participation of its delegation in the International Conference on Ukraine Recovery (URC2024), which will be held on June 11-12, 2024 in Berlin. Japan is organizing a roundtable discussion on Ukrainian-Japanese cooperation in the agricultural sector,” the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said.
The acting minister, for his part, thanked Japan for its systematic support of Ukraine and noted that the opening of Asian markets for Ukrainian agricultural products is an important step for the development of bilateral relations and business.
State Enterprise Antonov (Kyiv) announced a tender for mandatory aviation insurance services for civil aviation on May 31.
Namely for civil aviation risk insurance services (under insurance classes 1, 5, 11): aircraft insurance, aviation carrier’s liability insurance for damage caused to passengers, baggage, cargo and mail; liability insurance of commercial civil aircraft operator for damage caused to third parties.
As well as insurance of the liability of developers, manufacturers of civil aviation equipment, maintenance organizations authorized to conduct test flights for damage caused to third parties; insurance of the liability of an educational institution in the performance of training flights for damage caused to third parties. Insurance of aircraft crew members and other aviation personnel; insurance of persons who have the right to be on board an aircraft on legal grounds without purchasing tickets; insurance of employees of the customer of aviation works, employees of other organizations involved in the performance of aviation works, and persons ensuring the technological process during the performance of aviation works.
According to the message on the website of the Ukrainian Universal Exchange, the expected cost of the purchase of insurance services is UAH 5.607 million, the cost of submitting a bid is UAH 4.08 thousand.
Documents are accepted until 17:00 on June 7.
In January-May 2024, Ukraine exported 589.86 tons of organic honey, which exceeds last year’s figures, the OrganikInfo portal reported, citing data from the Organic Standard certification body.
According to the report, in recent years, the dynamics of growth in organic honey exports has been observed. Thus, in 2021, 269.33 tons of honey were exported abroad, in 2022 – 698.05 tons, and in 2023 – 702.9 tons.
“Organic honey is not among the top 10 products exported from Ukraine, but Ukraine remains one of the leading exporters of honey, including organic honey, and demand in the world is only growing,” said organic market analysts.
According to the data, in 2022, honey ranks 4th in terms of the volume of products imported to the EU and has a share of 9.2% of all organic imports.
The average monthly salary of full-time employees in the first quarter of 2024 increased by 22.5% compared to the first quarter of 2023 and amounted to UAH 18,903, the State Statistics Service (Ukrstat) reported.
According to the State Statistics Service, the average monthly salary grew the most in the temporary accommodation and catering sector – by 44.1% to UAH 15,057, in construction – by 44% to UAH 14,561, in information and telecommunications – by 35.6% to UAH 49473, in transport, postal and courier services – by 30.7% to UAH 18,997, in wholesale and retail trade – by 27.9% to UAH 22,809, in real estate operations – by 27.6% to UAH 17,512, in professional, scientific and technical activities – by 26.3% to UAH 26,316.
In industry, wages grew by 23.3% to UAH 20,435, in public administration and defense by 22.5% to UAH 23,376, in agriculture by 21.7% to UAH 15,004, and in financial and insurance activities by 18.2% to UAH 39,116.
According to the State Statistics Service, salaries in administrative services increased by 17.2% to UAH 15,857, in arts, sports and entertainment by 15.9% to UAH 13,663, in education by 14.4% to UAH 12,649, and in healthcare by 12.3% to UAH 15,432.
The data excludes the temporarily occupied territories of the Russian Federation and parts of the territories where military operations are (were) conducted.
In January-May 2024, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) transported 75.4 million tons of cargo, up 30% from the same period in 2023, the UZ press service said on Monday.
About half of all cargo (38 million tons) was transported for export, which is 57% more than in January-May 2023, the report said.
“We ensure stable operation and transport commercial cargo in full. According to the results of five months, we have quite significant indicators both in total transportation volumes and in the strategic export traffic for the country. In particular, we increased grain exports by 39% compared to last year. We are ready to continue to fully meet the country’s economy and business transportation needs,” the statement quotes Yevhen Liashchenko, Chairman of the Board of UZ, as saying.
In January-May 2024, the volume of transportation in domestic traffic increased by 6.7% compared to January-May 2023 to 32.9 million tons. Cargo imports increased by 68.5% to 4.3 million tons, while exports increased by 57% to 38 million tons.
As noted, iron and manganese ore led the way in the transportation volumes for the period under review – 19.3 million tons; grain cargo – 18.8 million tons; coal – 11.5 million tons; and building materials – 10.8 million tons.
Earlier it was reported that in January-April 2024, UZ increased the volume of cargo transportation by 28.7% compared to the same period in 2023 to 59.9 million tons, while in the export direction this figure increased by 48.8% to 30.4 million tons.
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