KIEV, Feb. 16 – AvtoKrAZ holding company (Kremenchuk), the only truck producer in Ukraine, plans to produce 2,600-3,000 trucks in 2009, down from 2008’s 3,634 trucks.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Zaporizhia-based OJSC Motor-Sich is interested in the organization of facilities for servicing and producing its plane and helicopter engines in India.

The Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday that during the AeroIndia-2009 international aviation exhibition held in Bangalore (India), the leadership of Motor-Sich submitted proposals to the Indian Defense Ministry on a number of joint projects on designing and producing aircraft engines and the creation of join aircraft repair plants.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – According to estimated data, the net profit of UkrNafta in 2007 was around UAH1 billion, which is in line with the December forecasts of the company, said Volodymyr Pustovarov, first deputy chairman.

He said that more exact data would be received in two weeks.

KIEV, Feb. 15 - Ukraine’s largest petrochemical company KarpatNaftoKhim expects to have losses of about $5.5 million per month in 2008 from processing of pyrolytic raw materials due to growing prices for energy, the company reported Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 14 - Moody's Investors Service announced that it had assigned a first-time global scale insurance financial strength rating of B3 to Kiev-based Insurance Company Universalna.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Ukraine's joining the World Trade Organization would have moderately positive consequences for many sectors of its economy, the results of which would be felt in five to seven years, according to a report drawn up by Vitaliy Vavryschuk, an analyst from Kiev-based Dragon Capital Investment Company.

KIEV, Feb. 17 ??“ In January sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine grew by 22.6% in comparison with January 2004 to over 12,400, the information analytical group Auto Consulting reported.

KYIV, Jan 16 – The fertilizer market in Ukraine in 2024 will change dramatically due to the introduction of customs checks of the origin of imported goods and the forced transition to the use of domestic products, which will still not reduce the costs of farmers, the information and analytical agency Infoindustry reported.

KYIV, Jan 17 - The European Commission, despite the protestations of European countries neighboring Ukraine, is preparing a draft resolution to extend the duty-free mechanism for Ukrainian exports through mid-2025, Ukrainian media reported, citing an interview with Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Siekierski in Business Insider.

KYIV, Jan 11 – The poor work of government agencies leads to an annual budget shortfall of about UAH 9 billion from the sale of alcoholic beverages, competent agencies in 2019-2020 and over nine months of 2021 also did not provide an effective system of control over production and circulation of alcohol and administration of the excise tax.