Azerbaijan: Baku airport serves 3 million passengers in January-November 2016

The Heydar Aliyev International Airport served more than 231,000 passengers in November, up by 23% YoY, the airport’s press service said. The airport served almost 3 million passengers in January-November. Of them, 1.8 million passengers chose to fly with Azerbaijan’s national carrier, Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL). Some 500,000 passengers were transported via AZAL domestic flights to…

Asia: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Georgia railway bodies ink MOU

Heads of railway authorities of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Georgia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Baku on prospects of development of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TCITR), a message from Azerbaijan Railways CJSC said. Head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov, President of Kazakhstan Railways JSC Kanat Alpysbaev, Director General of Turkish State…

Ukraine: barley exports up in October 2016

According to official information, Ukraine exported 525 KMT of barley in October, up by 16.4% YoY (451.1 KMT). In total, Ukraine has increased its barley exports by 3.7% this season, to 3487.5 KMT. Saudi Arabia is still the main destination market for Ukrainian barley, though with lower shipments now. Ukrainian exporters shipped 1.43 MMT of…

Azerbaijan: another 26 agroparks to be built

It is planned to build another 26 agroparks in Azerbaijan, the country’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said. He said that the agroparks would be built in 19 districts of Azerbaijan. A variety of processing and manufacturing enterprises are planned to be built in these agroparks. Currently, the work is underway in Azerbaijan to create ‘Yalama’…

Turkmenistan: Afghanistan to get $1 billion for transit via TAPI pipeline

Afghanistan will profit by more than $1 billion per year for gas transit via the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline. Necessary infrastructure facilities – plants, gas compressor stations and gas purification plants will be built along this energy bridge. “More than 12,000 jobs will be created for our Afghan brothers”, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said. The main…

Ukraine: agro-industrial complex provides more than half of the growth of capital investments in the economy

In January-September the share of agro-industrial complex in the general growth of capital investments in Ukraine reached 51.3%, including the agricultural component at 39.6%, and the food industry at 11.7%, the Head of investment department at the National Scientific Center Institute of Agrarian Economics Nikolai Kisil declared. According to him, in January-September the general volume…