KIEV, June 21 – Preconditions for the improvement of official forecasts for inflation and GDP growth for 2010 have formed, although the government and the National Bank of Ukraine should reinforce their support for the Ukrainian economy, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, June 21 – Ukrtransnafta plans to build a new berth at the Pivdenny sea oil terminal (Odessa region), and one of the options of the project includes the building of a berth with two-side piers for tankers with the carrying capacity of up to 100,000-150,000 tons and worth $125 million.

KIEV, June 18 – Germany's KfW has announced its readiness to allocate EUR150 million to modernize the second power unit of OJSC Tsentrenergo's Trypilla thermal power plant.

KIEV, June 20 ??“ Ukraine will not be able to pay more than $106 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, Yuriy Boyko, a former head Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, said.

KIEV, June 20 ??“ Ukraine??™s third-largest oil and gas company ChornomorNaftoGaz has started developing the Odessa gas condensate field under a joint activity program with Naftogaz Ukrayiny's subsidiary UkrGazVydobuvannya, a company official said.

KIEV, June 20 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending two subsidiaries of Austria's Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG 52 million euros to boost financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine and Serbia.

KIEV, June 21 ??“ AutoKrAZ Holding Company, based in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, Ukraine's only producer of heavy trucks, is to set up the KrAZ machine building concern by the end of 2005, the company's press service said.

LONDON, June 21 - Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, has assigned Ukraine's chemicals group Concern Stirol (Horlivka, Donetsk region) Senior Unsecured foreign currency rating of 'B' and a Short-term foreign currency rating of 'B'.

KYIV, May 19 – Industrial investors are looking for brownfield projects (on former industrial zones) and are ready to invest in Ukraine now, CBRE Ukraine managing partner Radomyr Tsurkan said during the architectural and construction business forum "Restoration of the country. Change strategy for architects, developers and builders."

KYIV, May 19 – Agricultural business associations of Ukraine have appealed to Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas with a request to facilitate the urgent unblocking of agricultural exports from Ukraine to the European Union, as well as the removal of obstacles to import and transit in accordance with the EU Implementing Regulation 2023/9 adopted on May 2.