ODESA, May 30 – Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan intend to arrange a railroad route from China to Europe and launch it before 2020, Ukrainian Deputy Infrastructure Minister Yuriy Lavreniuk has said.

KYIV, May 30 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) has signed an agreement worth almost $30 million with the Chinese company CISDI for the modernization of the largest blast furnace (No. 9).

KYIV, May 30 – The Financial Sector Development Strategy of Ukraine for 2020-2025 will be drawn up and presented by late 2019.

KYIV, May 30 - Program Leader for World Bank's Infrastructure and Sustainable Development Baher El-Hifnawi has said the land market in Ukraine should be opened for ensuring stable development of all sectors, including the port sector.

KYIV, May 31 – The Odesa branch of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, Louis Dreyfus Company Ukraine LLC and Brooklyn-Kyiv have signed a memorandum on the completion of construction of a grain terminal at Odesa seaport.

KIEV, June 1 - Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv LLC, controlled by the Japanese manufacturer of electrical equipment and telecommunications systems Fujikura, plans to open two additional plants in Ukraine with an area of 10,000 square meters in Vinnytsia and Cherkasy for 1,500 new jobs each, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said.

TIRASPOL, June 1 - The first Moldovan-Ukrainian checkpoint opened in the Transdniestrian sector of the border with Ukraine is a provocation meant to escalate tensions, the Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic said on Wednesday.

KIEV, June 1 - Ukraine will target assets of Russian gas company Gazprom in other countries to enforce payment of $6.74 billion fine imposed by its anti-monopoly committee, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said Thursday.

KIEV, May 30 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has opened a new representative office in Odessa, which became the Bank's fourth office in Ukraine and completed the formation of its Ukrainian-based branches.

DUSSELDORF, June 1 - Metinvest, the largest Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding, in 2016 ranked 37th in the list of the world's largest steel producers with a volume of 10.34 million tons compared to the 40th place in 2015 with a volume of 9.65 million tons of steel and 33rd place in 2014 with a volume of production of 11.18 million tons of steel.