OAO Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and GMCS announced the launch of a project that aims to introduce a production and economic planning system at MMK; the system is to be based on JDA Software Group, Inc.-designed JDA® Supply Chain Planner solution. ‘MMK’s new project is targeted at enhancing the efficiency of our sales and production planning. The innovations provided by the project will improve both our order portfolio and the range of products in accordance with our current and prospective production and logistics options,’ the company reports. A JDA Supply Chain Planner-based

The import of goods within the Yekaterinburg Customs area amounted to $1.6bn in January-November 2010, with 79.3% of these imports’ worth falling on the countries of the far abroad and the remaining 20.7% falling on the CIS member states. All in all, the import increased by 17.9% in money terms in eleven months of 2010 compared with a year earlier. This increase was brought about by the growth of the imported goods’ overall physical volume, even though the contractual prices actually dropped. The physical volume of the goods imported within the Yekaterinburg Customs area reached 704,500 tons

Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin visited the construction site of Yekaterinburg’s newest Academic district. Now Academic is not only Russia’s but also Europe’s largest city development project to date. Head of the regional Cabinet and General Director of ZAO Renova-StroyGroup Akademicheskoye Alexei Vorobyov tried to estimate how effectively the regional government’s provisions on the creation of engineering and social infrastructure in the new district are implemented and checked out the construction site of a new quarter. The region’s authorities feel fully prepared to

‘I haven’t made any profit from Vysotsky,’ a Yekaterinburg-based entrepreneur Andrei Gavrilovsky told the Delovoy Kvartal magazine. The opening of the skyscraper in question has been postponed at least three times; the latest deadline has been set for the middle of the year 2011. ‘In fact, I have only been spending money so far. All the money I get from selling the office space is directed into the construction. Then, my entire business is now focused on this project. I deal in a number of activities, in fact: Antey Business Center is making good money through rent at the moment, then I also

Russian Railways Public Company is planning to sign an agreement with the Canadian concern Bombardier today that will signify the sale of a shareholding in Elteza (United Electro-technical Plants) to the latter, RZhD-Partner, the railway company’s information portal, reports. ‘We intend to sign the agreement with Bombardier regarding the sale of a shareholding in Elteza (the Canadian company won the right to buy this in the course of a tender) and we are going to introduce new technologies to create advanced alarm, lockdown, and security systems on the railroads,’ says President of Russian

‘The bankruptcy claim that has been placed against InnoGarant recently has nothing to do with the situation around Capital Tours. The application was actually placed by one of the insurance company’s customer, not a tourist. To the best of my knowledge, her claims have either been settled out of court or are just about to be settled. We keep in touch with InnoGarant’s management,’ Capital Tours’ General Director Inna Beltyukova told TourBusiness, a web portal. InnoGarant, the insurer of Capital Tours, was faced with a bankruptcy claim a few days ago. In case the company is actually declared