KYIV, May 21 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) currently does not see the clear picture how the new wholesale electricity market starts operating, which launch is scheduled for July 1, Senior Banker at EBRD Olga Yeriomina said.
KYIV, May 21 – Analysts from Goldman Sachs partially associate the strengthening of the national currency of Ukraine with a positive reaction to recent political events and expect further strengthening of the hryvnia in the short term, according to the investment bank's economic forecast.
KYIV, May 22 - The decision of Naftogaz Ukrayiny to raise natural gas prices for industrial consumers to UAH 9,953 for 1,000 cubic meters (including VAT) is associated with the growth of its prices in the European market.
KYIV, May 21 – A first set of equipment for the central spent nuclear fuel storage facility made by Holtec International would arrive to Ukraine by the end of May 2018, the company's press service reported.
KYIV, May 21 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s biggest producer of steel, may resume normal operation after local railway had ended 4-day strike.
"Yesterday, after a four-day strike, the third shift of the railway workers began work, on the night of Sunday to Monday the first shift came, and from this morning the second shift has been working (four shifts).
KIEV, May 21 – The European Investment Bank, the Infrastructure Ministry and the State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) have signed an agreement on the provision of a EUR 55 million loan by the EIB to build the Beskydsky railway tunnel, the ministry reported.
KIEV, May 22 – The first disbursement of the European Union's grant assistance to Ukraine under State-Building Contract in the amount of EUR 250 million will arrive by late May, Andrew Rasbash, head of Cooperation of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, said at a briefing in Kiev.
KIEV, May 21 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) on May 21 raised its long-term corporate credit rating on Ukrainian railway operator – the State Administration of Railways Transport of Ukraine (Ukrainian Railways, or Ukrzaliznytsia) to 'B' from 'B-' and removed it from CreditWatch where it was placed with positive implications on May 2.
IVANO-FRANKIVSK, May 22 – The Cabinet of Ministers is to allocate UAH 280 million to finish the removal and disposal of perchlorobenzene from a toxic waste landfill in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region) in 2013.
