KIEV, Oct. 9 – Kharkiv Tractor Plant has signed a contract to supply up to 1,000 engines to Volvo, Plant Director General Vladyslav Hubin said.

"The contract was signed in February – this was shipment of test engines. The contract for batch supplies was signed in late September," he said.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Britain's Meyer Bergman European Retail Partners announced that it is suspending its investments and plans to get rid of its assets in Ukraine in the near future due to planned amendments to Ukrainian law.

ASTANA, Oct. 9 – Kazakhstan's companies have expressed their interest in the privatization of Ukrainian energy enterprises, Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - Coal stockpiles at Ukraine's thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants (CHPP) rose by 22.3% in January-September 2015 increased by 22.3% and by October 1 amounted to 2.373 million tons, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The construction of the new Beskydsky railway tunnel in the Carpathians will start soon, due to which the capacity of the railways on transit goods transportation towards Western and Central Europe will grow.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – Dniprospetsstal (Zaporizhia) could dismiss 25% of its staff by December 1 this year due to a lack of orders and problems with VAT refunds.

According to the company, to avoid a complete stop in the enterprise, the plant management decided to bring the staff numbers in line with its current output capacity.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The Finance Ministry, in line with plans approved earlier, has begun selling the country's forex treasury bearer bonds for individuals, the ministry's Web site says.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - The Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry is now saying the country's grain traders could export as much as 5 million tons of wheat this agricultural year - having forecast four million tons of wheat exports previously.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – Ukraine by late 2011 could double its grain exports to ten million tons, Volodymyr Lapa, Director General of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, has said.

"The situation on the grain market was settled in time as expected [by market players]. It will give a chance for them to export around ten million tons of grain by January 1, 2012 with the export potential being 24-25 million tons…

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready to take part in the privatization of Ukrainian electricity supply and generating companies, Riccardo Puliti, the managing director in charge of the energy and natural resources sectors at the EBRD, said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine newspaper.