KIEV, Aug. 3 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has said that the starting price of Odessa Port-Side Chemical Plant was set too high but expressed confidence that the State Property Fund would make it possible to re-launch the failed tender to sell the plant.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – The National Bank of Ukraine starting August 10 has permitted individuals to buy and sell foreign currency equivalent to up to UAH 150,000 without presenting their ID documents (passports).

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Direct flights will be launched between Odessa and Germany's Paderborn in 2017. The Odessa airport and the city of Paderborn signed a relevant memorandum, Odessa regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili said.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects that the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce would issue a verdict in litigation with Russia's Gazprom by the end of the first half of 2017, Naftogaz Commercial Director Yuriy Vitrenko wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Coal stored at Ukrainian thermal power plant warehouses shrank by 8.4%, or 1,216 tons, to 1.320 million tons from July 27 to August 3, Ukrenergo reported.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – A vessel with 80,000 tons of coal from South Africa is being unloaded at Illichivsk port, Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Voschevsky said at a roundtable meeting in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug 4 – Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has forecast that grain exports will total 36 million tons in the 2015/2016 marketing year (July through June), up from 34.8 million tons the prior year.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Oschadbank has agreed to re-profile its 2016 and 2018 $1.2 billion loan participation notes, giving the state bank an additional seven years to pay off the principal and giving noteholders a coupon rate increase, the bank said in a statement after a noteholders vote on August 3.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – Ivano-Frankivskcement (Yamnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk region) soon will launch a high-tech cement line, which will allow the company to increase cement production by one million tons a year, according to the State Agency for Investment and National Project Management of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – National Energy Company Ukrenergo is dissatisfied with the work of Spain's Inabensa as a contractor under a project on the construction of the 750 kV Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) - Kakhovska substation power line, the press service of the Ukrainian company has reported.