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On October 10 there has taken place a ceremonial taking the oath by Kersti Kaljulaid, a new head of the state, heading the Council for Development Monitoring under the parliament's office since 2016.

On 27 September Concrete union of Estonia and Estonian union of construction material producers announced about the beginning of “Concrete construction 2016” competition.

During the conference “The future of the Baltic sea region: risks and opportunities”, held on the 21-23 September in Saint-Petersburg, Hanon Barabaner, a member of RANS, declared that at this moment Estonia has lost almost all advances in industrial and agricultural sectors which were made in Soviet times.

According to the statistics, the volumes of transit shipment across Estonia reduced by 7 times for 10 years.

On the 11th of September the Central Union of agricultural people of Estonia ran an extensive campaign at the Lossi square in an attempt to draw attention of the government to the farming problems.

Inspite of the fact that the bulk of on-line purchases of the Estonians is Chinese goods, the statistics shows the rise of interest of Estonian buyers in European shops in the current year.

According to the contract made on August 16 between Tax and Customs Board and Nutech company, border check points in Narva, Luhamaa and Koidula will be equipped by new scanning devices worth a total of 12,1 million euros by the end of 2017.

In the middle of July the DBT company has informed the authorities about its intention to expand a BCT (Baltic Chemical Terminal) port terminal and to install by two additional reservoirs for ammonia and liquid fertilizer, and also a burner for ammonia vapors.

Comparison of industrial outputs of Estonia in June 2016 and the similar period of the last year has shown a general decrease by 5%.

According to officials of European Parliament, Great Britain tends to improve its already advantageous position in the EU trying to get additional discounts.

The “IMHX 2016” exhibition is held once every three years in Birmingham and enters the largest ten industrial exhibitions of Great Britain.

The “China Beijing International Logistics Expo” exhibition annually brings together representatives of more than 1000 entities of the transport and logistics sphere from more than 80 world countries.

The producer of lifting equipment - Alekon Holding company which is the official representative of the group of Kranunion plants including Ardelt and Kocks Crane plants has taken part in the anniversary 15th International transport week of "Inter-TRANSPORT" held in Odessa on June 1-3, 2016.

According to the Statistics Department, in May of 2016 compared with the same period of the last year the indices of Estonian export prices have decreased by 3% and of import prices - by 5,1%.

According to statistics, cargo turnover of the Tallin port has decreased by 15,5% for the first five months compared with the same period of the last year and amounted to 10,4 million tons.

Statistics Estonia released the numbers on business sector profits for the first quarter of 2016.

Based on stability of Estonian core indicators, Fitch rating agency has predicted growth of national economy in the current year by 1,8%, and in 2017 - to 2,7%.

Estonian manufacturers of diary products are looking forward to signing of a food safety protocol which is to be held on May 16 during the meeting between Minister of Agriculture of Estonia, Urmas Kruuse, and representatives of People’s Republic of China.

In the run up to the summer the Estonian department of veterinary and food control offer the farmers to think of the pig breeding expediency.

Crisis of diary product market led to the decision of Estonian government to invest 15 million euros in this sector development.