The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) still hopes by the end of the year to get the fourth tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the EFF program in the amount of $1.3 billion, NBU Deputy Head Dmytro Solohub has said at a briefing in Kyiv. “This sum will be used to replenish international…
Belarus’ cargo traffic by all means of transport reduced by 4.3% YoY in January-September to 323.312 million tons, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus (Belstat) said in a report. Cargo transportation by railways in January-September stood at 93.221 million tons (down by 4.1% YoY), including transit cargo traffic at 22.6 million tons (down by 20.7%).…
Since the start of the grain sowing and till October 20, the amount of the accumulated effective warmth was 20-40% lower than last year. Due to this winter crops were developing rather slowly and now development pace lags behind last year. Despite low amount of rains in the second half of October, soil moisture stocks…
Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev will participate in the OPEC High Level Committee Meeting on implementation of Algerian agreements of OPEC and non-OPEC states, to be held in Vienna in late November, the Azerbaijani Energy Ministry said in a message. Along with Azerbaijan, invitations for the meeting were sent to such non-OPEC states as Russia,…
Azerbaijan is ready to share its experience in the field of energy with the Republic of South Africa and to assist it in development of a massive energy-producing potential, Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said. The minister welcomed the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa Pule Isaac Malefane. The parties discussed the…
Residents of the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP) will start production in 2017-2018, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Economy Minister Niyazi Safarov reported. Safarov said that one of SCIP’s biggest residents SOCAR Polymer would begin test production in the second half of 2017 and would reach its full production capacity in 2018. The creation of industrial zones is…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Qatar’s Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, the head of Al Faisal Holding, stressed at the meeting that the fuel and energy sector, transport and communications were priority vectors of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Qatar, the Turkmen government said in a message. According to the message, the agreements reached the…