Zaporizhia, Sept. 14 – Zaporizhia-based Dniproenergo plans in 2008-2012 to allocate UAH1.986 billion for the upgrade of heat power plants, announced Dniproenergo Director General Yuriy Bochkarev.

ODESSA, Sept. 17 - TransInvestService Ltd. (TIS) plans to build a cargo trans-shipping terminal at Odessa's Yuzhny port, Andriy Vetriak, the manager of the TIS project group, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – The State Property Fund has completed an assessment of the property of the state Kryvy Rih Mining and Processing Plant for Oxidized Ores in Dolysnke in Kirovohrad region, and on Sept. 20 plans to sign an agreement on the creation of a joint venture to complete the building of the plant with an investor.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - Radical changes in the activities of Ukrainian banks are not expected after the early parliamentary elections, according to Volodymyr Lavrenchuk, chairman of Raiffeisen Bank Aval.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in commodities from January to July 2007 was estimated at $5.25 billion, a 53.8% or $1.837 billion year-on-year increase, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - The plans to build a new steel-making company in the Kiev region are facing growing opposition from local authorities that fear the project may worsen environment in the region.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Sept. 13 ??“ The State Economic Secretariat of Mexico has launched an anti-dumping investigation into the import of Ukrainian-produced seamless pipes.

KIEV, Sept. 14 ??“ VABank has started cooperating with Italy's SACE state exports credit agency (Societa Italiana di Assicurazione dei Crediti all'Esportazione), the bank reported.

KIEV, Sept. 14 ??“ Poland again has confirmed its readiness to participate in the project to build the Odessa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline, and is considering the option of transporting oil in the reverse direction, from Plock to Odessa, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Jacek Kluczkowski said at a briefing in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 15 ??“ The new leadership of the Fuel and Energy Ministry of Ukraine says plans to link the Ukrainian power grid to the European Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) within two or three years are too optimistic, and an additional study should be made.