KIEV, Sept. 2 – The restriction on cash transactions by individuals to the level of UAH 150,000 from September 1 will expand the crediting opportunities of banks, reduce the circulation of dollars and ensure the general positive impact totaling 0.2% of GDP, National Bank of Ukraine Deputy Governor Vira Rychakivska said.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - Ukraine plans to boost its coal output to 105 million metric tons annually from about 86 million mt/year currently as part of strategy to improve energy independence, President Viktor Yanukovych said Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – The State Property Fund is planning to announce a tender for the sale of a 96.26% stake in Feodosia (Crimea-based Morye shipyard in September.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – Kiev’s Boryspil International Airport has started the process of transferring airlines to Terminal D.

The Infrastructure Ministry said that from September 1 Fly Dubai, Turkish Airlines, as well as the new airline Air One would be transferred to the state-run airport’s new terminal.

NIKOPOL, Aug. 31 – The government should pay more attention to supporting and developing the ferroalloy sector, Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) Director General Volodymyr Kutsyn said.

KIEV, Aug. 31 - Stakhanov coal mine in the Donetsk region was temporarily shut down by the authorities on Friday after a methane explosion several hours earlier injured six coal miners.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny extracted its first 100,000 barrels of crude oil from Gharadig oil deposit at the Alam El-Shawish East block in Egypt, the company reported Thursday.

This is the first overseas hydrocarbons extraction project ever carried out by the Ukrainian national energy company.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Aug. 31 - China Railway International is interested in constructing the second phase of Dnipropetrovsk's underground railway network.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – OJSC Semiconductor plant (Zaporizhia) plans after reconstruction to produce over 10,000 tons of polysilicon per year to generate solar energy, according to a posting on the Web site of Zaporizhia regional state administration.

KIEV, Sept. 1 – The State Property Fund supports the acceleration of the privatization of four heat generating companies – Zakhidenergo, Centrenergo, Dniproenergo and Donbasenergo, SPF head Oleksandr Riabchenko said in Kiev on Wednesday.