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War in Ukraine moves materials on scale of global cement trade, study funds
Russia’s war in Ukraine is mobilising industrial materials on a scale comparable with major commodity markets, placing heavy demands on some of the same supply chains critical to the country’s reconstruction, according to a new study. The researchers estimate that the war can mobilise 8 million to 10
Ukraine’s next critical minerals opportunity may already be above ground
By Iryna Fedets, URN Correspondent Mountains of red mud, mine tailings, coal ash and metallurgical slag sprawl across Ukraine’s old industrial regions, the residue of decades of mining, metals production and Soviet-era heavy industry. Piled into dumps and tailings facilities and long treated as an environmental burden, that
How war in Ukraine gave birth to a new kind of reconstruction finance
Every month since Russia's full-scale invasion, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) officials have sat down with their Ukrainian partner banks to ask the same question: where are the gaps? Those routine questions have become an unlikely source of financial innovation. As Ukrainian banks identify problems
99 stock-buying ideas to invest in the reconstruction of Ukraine
Dear reader, As building materials manufacturers, mining companies, airlines, venture capitalists, investment bankers and others take note of the possibility of an end to the war and the start of the historic reconstruction, so too does the global stock-investing community. Ukraine Rebuild Newswire recently asked Swen Lorenz, the face
7 tips to keep up staff morale and output amid war, from JYSK Ukraine HR Manager Olena Marinko
For more than three years, Ukraine has survived a full-scale war with Russia that has killed hundreds of thousands, as well as the flight of more than 6 million people, mostly women and children, in a mass refugee crisis, and a military draft. Through crisis after crisis, even as
5 construction tips for investors who want to help rebuild Ukraine, from the US head of a Kyiv engineering firm
American Dan Aspleaf does not promise easy wins in Ukraine for foreign investors looking to actually build something. He knows the work can be messy, the boundaries unclear, and the bureaucracy infuriating. He also knows that, with forethought and good advice, companies looking to join the reconstruction of Ukraine can
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Exclusive: Tetra Tech lays off dozens of workers in Ukraine; US prime contractors face local office closures as work goes unpaid
Tetra Tech, the global consulting and engineering firm, has laid off dozens of workers in Ukraine and faces tens of millions of dollars in costs locally due to the USAID cuts, including a payment freeze on work completed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company is one of