UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 2, 2017. Yekaterinburg Customs’ foreign trade turnover came to $1.7bn in the first quarter of the year, the customs’ press service reports. Cargo turnover reached 1,400,000,000 kg, up 14% on one year previously, with imports amounting to 6.2% and exports to 93.8% of the overall weight. Compared with the first quarter of 2016, the number of cargo manifests rose by 21.3% and the number of importers/exporters went up by 13.2% (+14.5% on exporting countries and +17.8% on importing ones) in the first quarter of this year. Yekaterinburg Customs’ primary trade partners were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 2, 2017. GIRAFFE, the manufacturer of cranes that are currently used in the construction of the World Football Championship 2018 facilities in Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Saransk, is now working together with MegaFon, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. A group of companies dealing in crane technologies has already had new cranes installed at twelve stadiums in different Russian cities. MegaFon improved mobile connection quality and increased the speed of Internet connection by three times to meet the crane

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 2, 2017. Four of Ural Airlines’ flight attendants took part in SkyService Forum 2017 in Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor on April 26-27, the air carrier’s press service reports. The four women won bronze in Sale As A Service category. ‘SkyService is a grand international event in the field of on-board service. This year’s forum was streamed along an exhibition, a conference, a number of workshops, and some presentations. Flight attendants from twenty-one different companies could take part in training sessions and master classes by SKYSHOP brands’ representatives,’ the press