HomeMaterials for 01.10.2008
01 October 200808:53

Nizhniy Tagil’s trade turnover comes to $3.1bn in January-August 2008

Nizhniy Tagil Customs processed 17,800 cargo manifests in January-August 2008; some 190 legal entities dealt in foreign trade altogether, while the total cargo turnover amounted to 3.1 million tons, with 55.1% of goods shipped to or from the far abroad and 44.9% shipped to or from the CIS. The external trade turnover in the area came to $3.1bn, which exceeded the figures for January-August 2007 by 33.7%. The export/import ratio came to 81%/19%. 80.7% of the total trade turnover involved the countries of the far abroad, while 19.3% of the total turnover had to do with the CIS. The latter rose
01 October 200808:51

SKB-Bank’s online users like the site

According to the findings of an interactive survey, most visitors to SKB-Bank’s official website found the site very convenient. 531 people were surveyed altogether within three weeks’ time, the bank’s press officer reports. 43% of respondents feel www.skbbank.ru provides an easy way of finding any necessary information related to the bank’s performance, while the convenient navigation makes it possible to find the details on any service within just one or two clicks. 19% of those surveyed say the site is generally simple to use, although it takes them a few minutes to get the grasp of the
01 October 200808:45

Rimera and Tatneft set up new team

The representatives of Rimera (part of ChTPZ Group). ALNAS, Almetievskaya electric submersible unit maintenance center, and Tatneft’s engineering center and R&D unit met to discuss the ways of working together in the field of development of high-viscosity oil deposits, the spokesperson for Rimera reports. At the end of the meeting, the parties decided to set up a joint work group that will focus on design and launch of new kinds of machinery suitable for such deposits’ development. ‘We appreciate our cooperation with Tatneft very much and are trying to find out what our customers’ vital
01 October 200808:39

UralMedStroy 1 claims to lack money, COMTECH Yekaterinburg says

‘UralMedStroy 1 owes us over 2 million RUR at the moment, which was why we placed a claim to this extent with Sverdlovsk Region Court of Arbitration. The enterprise has been putting off its payments for the rolled metal delivery for 130 days now, claiming they don’t have enough money for the time being,’ COMTECH Yekaterinburg’s Commercial Director Vitaliy Popov said to an UrBC reporter. The claim laid by COMTECH Yekaterinburg against UralMedStroy 1 was first heard in the Court of Arbitration on September 29, 2008. The plaintiff insists on getting 2.27 million RUR from the local developer. ‘We