Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

VOLUME OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS SOLD IN UKRAINE 16.3% UP IN 2018

The volume of sold industrial products (goods, services) in January and February 2018 stood at UAH 402.975 billion, which is 16.3% more than in January and February 2017, in particular the volume sold abroad was worth UAH 108.704 billion (a decrease of 26.48%), the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the agency, in January and February 2018 compared to January and February 2017 the index of turnover of sold production in mining and quarrying grew by 23%, in processing industry by 14.6%.
In the total volume of sales, the largest share accounted for the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (25.5%), metallurgical production (18.6%), production of cast iron, steel and ferroalloys (14.5%), mining and quarrying (14.2%) and processing industry (59.4%).
As reported, in 2017 industrial products (goods, services) worth UAH 2.153 trillion were sold, which is 21.9% more than in 2016.

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