KIEV, Sept. 14 - The United States Department of Agriculture has forecast the grain harvest in Ukraine in 2009 at 42.45 million tons, which is 1 million tons up on the forecast it made a month ago.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The new D terminal at Boryspil international airport state company will service its first passengers by Nov. 30, 2011, according to Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunik.

KIEV, Sept. 15 - Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January to August 2009, taking into account losses in electricity transmission, fell by 13.4% or 16.866 billion kilowatt-hours year-on-year, to 108.869 billion kilowatt-hours, the Fuel and Energy Ministry said.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – The Ukrainian authorities have all the tools needed to prevent the country’s defaulting on its debts, Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn has said.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – China's Geely Group has trimmed its 2008 Geely car sales target for Ukraine from 17,000-20,000 to 13,000 cars.

The official importer of Geely is the AIS Corporation.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – Ukraine is to sow the same area of fields with grain crops this marketing year (July 2008 – June 2009) as last year – around 15.5 million hectares, according to Deputy Agriculture Minister Yaroslav Hadzalo.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – There are all good reasons to prolong the 25% car import duty until late 2008, Industry Minister Volodymyr Novitsky said.

"Everything will depend on how the Verkhovna Rada votes [whether the parliament overrides the veto of the president on the law that prolongs this duty], but I as the head of the industrial sector, think that there are grounds for its prolongation," he told the press at the Stolychne Auto Show, which opened in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – Favorable state policy is needed to support company expansion, according to one of the largest players on the Ukrainian auto market.

Bogdan Corporation, one of the largest players on the Ukrainian car market, announced that it may possibly set an additional manufacturing facility in Ukraine.

ZAPORIZHIA, Sept. 15 –The retention of the 25% auto import duty will lead to trade conflicts at an international level, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a press conference in Zaporizhia.

KIEV, Sept. 15 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the state oil and gas company, and Societe General, a French investment bank, reached an agreement over ?2.5 billion five-year credit financing.