Kaliningrad news

Based on materials by RUGRAD.EU. According to data provided by HeadHunter recruitment agency experts based on the vacancies placed on hh.ru by companies-employers and CVs by jobseekers, the demand for skilled personnel in Kaliningrad showed moderate growth in March after a 50% drop by the end of 2008. The number of vacancies placed by Kaliningrad employers at hh.ru in early April reached around 67% of pre-crisis level.

Based on materials by RUGRAD.EU. Gambling machine manufacturing plant on Moskovsky prospect in Kaliningrad will be put into operation in June this year. The plant belongs to “Novomatic” company of the Czech Republic. A wide range of slot machines are planned to be manufactured both for domestic market and for exports. Read more in Russian…

Based on materials by RUGRAD.EU. According to Konstantin Kopylov, Vice-President of the Association for Gaming Business Development, apart from identifying the location of future gaming zones no work is being implemented by business community and authorities. The situation with the gaming zone in Primorie is even worse – no location is specified in that case. The issue of infrastructure and communications is unresolved. There is some progress in one of the four zones – in Rostov region. However it’ll take a year at least for casinos to be able to start moving there.

Based on materials by Kaliningrad.Ru. Residents of the Kaliningrad region are likely to be able to get Polish national multi-entry visas valid for three months at least, “TourInfo” newspaper reported on Friday.

Based on materials by REGNUM-Baltika. Today, April 19 an experimental white-fish rearing plant has been launched at Lesnoe settlement on the Curonian spit. Head of the Federal Agency for Fishing, Mr. Andrey Krainiy, attended the official opening.

Based on materials by RUGRAD.EU. According to Daniil Kofner, Director for Economics of “Vozrozhdenie” fund, in the last few months office rent rates in Kaliningrad city centre went down on average 25%. The lowest monthly rates for “A” and “B” class office were at the level of 800 roubles per sq.m, now they dropped to 600 roubles. At the same time, rent rates for “C” and “D” class offices remained unchanged. Read more in Russian…

1888PressRelease.Amstelveen, The Netherlands - Focus on tackling the economic crisis at the 7th participation of Avangate in the Russian event.

Flightglobal. Kaliningrad-based Boeing 737 operator KD-Avia claims to have resolved debt payment problems and returned to normal operations after earlier this month delaying all departures from its base at Kaliningrad Khrabrovo airport, citing a "high volume of debt" to aircraft lessors. Several Russian carriers had been called up to transport KD-Avia passengers to destinations in Europe and Israel.

Based on materials by Kaliningrad.Ru. Export flow serviced by Kaliningrad Railways (KZhD) fell 54% in January-March 2009, Ivan Besedin, Head of  KZhD said in an interview to REGNUM agency.

Based on materials by Kaliningrad.Ru. Cargo turnover at Kaliningrad sea port fell to 3.003 mn tones in Q1 of 2009 - a 31% drop as compared with same period last year. The volume of oil cargos turnover went up by 35% to 345.3 thousand tones, while transshipment of many other articles slowed down substantially (oil products – by 41.8% to 1.295 mn tones, containers – by 76.5% to 14.371 thousand TEU, metals – by 30.9% to 342.8 thousand tones, coal and coke – by 72.3% to 100.9 thousand tones, mineral fertilisers - by 41.4% to 101.8 thousand tones.