KIEV, Sept. 5 - Bogdan Corporation, one of the leading Ukrainian automakers, has reached agreement with Great Wall Motor Company Limited (China) on the start of production of Great Wall cars in Ukraine and intends by the end of this year to produce about 500 Great Wall H3 cars, the press service of the corporation said on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Odessa maritime merchant port in August increased handling of grain cargo by a preliminary 53.9% year-over-year thanks to the good harvest of grain crops, to 720,600 tons, which allowed a rise of 4.3% in general handling, to 1.89 million tons, the port's administration reported.

KIEV, Sept. 6 – Ukrtransgaz expects to receive a feasibility study on the upgrade of the Bar compressor station of the Soyuz trunk gas pipeline (Barsky district, Vinnytsia region) at the end of September, Ukrtransgaz chief engineer Ihor Lokhman told reporters.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Italian energy company Eni seeks to tap oil and natural gas deposits in shallow waters offshore the Black Sea in Ukraine, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Friday.

MOSCOW, Sept. 6 - The guided missile cruiser of project 1164 (formerly Ukraina) which remains at a shipyard in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, will be completed there before the end of the year and offered to Russia for 1 billion rubles, a representative of the Military-Industrial Commission with the Russian government told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – The growth of industrial prices in Ukraine in August 2011 sped up to 0.5%, against 0.1% in July, 0.5% in June, 2.6% in May and 3.4% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.

Since the beginning of the year, industrial prices have grown by 16.3%.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash has not provided financial support to the Regions Party at least since 2006, Deputy Prime Minister Borys Kolesnikov said.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – Ukrainian Coal Minister Yuriy Yaschenko and Chen Yuan, a representative of the State Development Bank of China, signed a framework agreement on financial cooperation between the Ukrainian Coal Ministry and the bank at a meeting in China on September 2, the ministry announced on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Despite its moves to restructure, Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz has sufficient funds to redeem $500 million worth of eurobonds in late September as scheduled, according to a group formed by some of the company's bondholders.

The Naftogaz Bondholder's Action Group bases its claims on the fact that the company was able to pay some $1.3 billion for supplies of Russian gas in July-August and also has more than $1 billion in domestic government loan bonds in its possession.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Ukrtransnafta, the operator of Ukraine's oil transport system, has switched the Prydniprovski oil pipeline to reverse mode and transported the first shipments of oil from Odessa oil terminal to Kremenchuk oil refinery (Ukrtatnafta) UPECO's NefteRynok weekly reported.