KYIV, Oct 31 – Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products grew by 24.3% in January-September 2017 year-over-year, to $13.07 billion or by 41.7% of total exports by the country, Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported.

KYIV, Oct 31 - The demand for gas for the operation of thermal power plants (TPP) under the pessimistic scenario of coal supply in the heating season will be about 2 billion cubic meters (bcm), Ukrenergo main dispatcher Vitaliy Zaichenko said.

KYIV, Nov 1 – After selling Ukraine's Dneprometiz (Dnipro) by Russia's Severstal, representatives of the previous owner left the supervisory board of the plant, and two representatives of TAS Group were introduced to the board.

KYIV, Oct 31 - DTEK energy holding plans to increase coal production in Ukraine by 1.5-2 million tons in 2018, Dmytro Maliar, the first deputy commercial director of DTEK Energy, has said.

KYIV, Oct 31 - Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant has resumed production of carbamide and the work of the terminal on ammonia transshipment, acting head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Vitaliy Trubarov has said.

KYIV, Nov 1 – Ukrzaliznytsia Acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov said the 15% increase in the tariffs for freight transportation is a compromise found during a long dialog between the company and market players.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukrzaliznytsia has finished drilling of a new two-track Beskydsky tunnel on October 28 on schedule.

The company said Monday that the tunnel was drilled in two stages: the upper section and the lower section. A total of 1,764 meters were drilled.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - The debt of the Ukrainian public for housing and utilities services grew by 26.6% in September compared to August and amounted to UAH 12.038 billion, the State Statistics Service said.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - ABH Holdings S.A. (ABHH, Cyprus), which indirectly owns 100% of Alfa-Bank (Ukraine), and UniCredit Group (UCG) on October 31 announced the completion of a deal on the transfer of 99.9% in Ukrsotsbank (Kiev), UCG's asset in Ukraine, in exchange for a minority stake of 9.9% in ABHH, according to Alfa-Bank (Ukraine).

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine's State Food-Grain Corporation is mulling the possibility of implementing a joint project on modernization of elevators and building a new deep port terminal with China's CCEC.