Poor profit to witness

The number of enterprises making profit in Kaliningrad oblast in January 2009 equals 55,4% totally as it was announced by the press-centre of the regional government at the first meeting of the anti-crisis group. 

 According to the regional Ministry of Economy the index of industrial production has reduced considerably in the production of transport equipment (20,3 % against the level of January-February ,2008) electrical and optical equipment (30,3%), pulp and paper production (34,6%), machine engines (38%), leather and articles made of leather (55,5%), non-metallic mineral products (64%), timber processing and articles of wood (76,1 %), foodstuffs (76,6%), textile and clothing (86,6%)
Some growth can be seen in metal production and articles of metal (4,2 times as high as compared with the level of January-February, 2008), rubber and plastic articles (2,2)
Building sphere capacity came to 72,2% and at the same time the turnover of retail trade has grown up to 103% while the level of paid service has begun to flag (97,7%)
To remind that the common capacity of industrial production in Kaliningrad oblast in January-February in 2009 have reduced 10% against last year’s indexes. 

“Our economy is breathing heavily”, - summed the governor the state of the regional industry after the anti-crisis group meeting. 

Source: www.kaliningrad.ru
Translation: Alex Maximov. E-mail: alex77786@mail.ru