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• U.S. General Electric Transportation is interested in investing in Ukraine, including modernizing locomotives and rolling stock of Ukrainian railways, reports the press service of Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry.
• Heads of the railways of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan invite Ukraine to join the development of the Trans-Caspian international transport corridor and possibly to create a joint venture, according to the Ukrainian Cabinet's press service.
• Turkish capital in Ukraine totals more than $2 billion -- and it is growing. Burak Pehlivan, Chairman of the International Turkish-Ukrainian Business Association, stated this at an expert meeting in Ukrinform.
• Deposits in hryvnias in Ukrainian banks in March 2017 grew by 3.4%, to UAH 429.699 billion, or US$15.97 billion. Those in foreign currency (in U.S. dollar equivalent) also expanded – by 0.4%, to $13.063 billion, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.
• National oil and gas holding Naftogaz in 2016 received UAH 26.5 billion, or US$ 984 million, in net profit. In 2015, the company saw a UAH 27.7 billion, or $1.029 billion, net loss , according to the Naftogaz press service.
• Kyivenergo, a public joint-stock company, has assessed its losses in heat and hot water supply in 2016 at $40 million, CFO Tetiana Hriaznova said at a briefing in Kyiv. She said that the loss is linked to gas prices and heat tariffs changing at different times.
• Public joint-stock company DTEK Krymenergo has started a procedure to settle an multi-million dollar investment dispute with Russia under an agreement on mutual protection of investment signed by Ukraine and Russia, Interfax-Ukraine reported. DTEK said that the dispute is linked to the nationalization of the company's assets in Crimea.
• Mutual claims of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy and Russia's Gazprom under a gas sale and purchase contract total some $17.9 billion and $45.7 billion ($14 billion and $36.7 billion ex interest) respectively, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
• The project of agrarian receipts has allowed farmers to raise $31.4 million thanks to the issue of 101 receipts since 2014 when the pilot project was launched, according to Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry. In the 2016/17 agricultural season, farmers raised $24.4 million with the help of 41 receipts.The UBJ website, like most websites, uses small text files called cookies. This note provides information on what cookies are, which cookies The UBJ uses, and how they can be controlled.
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