KYIV, Oct 24 - The construction of a grain terminal of Cargill and MV Cargo with a capacity of 5 million tons of grain a year in Yuzhny port, whose cost is estimated at $150 million, has reached the middle and will be fully completed in spring 2018, MV Cargo has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 24 - DTEK will soon supply the first 150,000 tons of G grade (gas) coal from the United States to replenish the stocks in the warehouses of its thermal power plants (TPP) while preparing for the heating season, the company's press service has said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – The additional revenues of Naftogaz Ukrayiny from transit of gas during the temporary restriction in the work of the OPAL gas pipeline (the eastern part of the Nord Stream trunk pipeline) amounted to about $300 million, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, Oct 24 - Industrial production in Ukraine in September 2017 decreased by 0.3% compared to the same month in 2016, while in August it increased by 1.2%, the State Statistics Service has said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Former Deputy Prime Minister and a wealthy businessman Sergiy Tigipko will merge VS Bank to with his TAScombank (Kyiv) after acquiring the Lviv-based bank, he said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Potential participants of a consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) want to fully control its operations, Board Chairman of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy Andriy Kobolev told reporters at the Oil & Gas conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny hopes the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will make a decision regarding supplies of gas by Russia's Gazprom to uncontrolled areas of Donbas in the lawsuit concerning the gas supply contract, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev told reporters Tuesday.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Director General of Mykolaiv alumina plant LLC Dmytro Myrny told employees about the change of the owner of the enterprise: Switzerland's Glencore is acquiring the plant from Russia's RusAl.

KYIV, Oct 24 - The space agencies of Ukraine and Canada are planning to secure their partnership plans in the world space market by signing a bilateral memorandum of understanding in cooperation in the field of exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, a well-informed source in the space sector has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 25 – Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under the guidance of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have notified former MP Mykola Martynenko and his possible accomplice, the head of a structural unit of Energoatom, of the suspicion of seizing the property of this state-owned enterprise.