Azerbaijan’s national air cargo carrier Silk Way Airlines received another new Boeing 747-8F aircraft. This is the 8th Boeing and 4th Boeing 747-8F aircraft, which will be operated by the airline. Delivery of the new aircraft will enable the airline to increase its route network even broader, including new destinations to the US. It is…
It is planned to produce first gas from the Absheron gas condensate field in 2019, First Vice-President of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR Khoshbakht Yusifzade said. He said that the reserves of the Absheron gas condensate field were estimated at 350 billion cubic meters of gas and 45 million tons of condensate, according to…
Qualitative characteristics of Ukrainian grains supplied to foreign markets completely meet the international standards, the Head of the State Service on Food Safety and Consumers Protection Volodymyr Lapa said. According to him, the export trading continues developing, and Ukrainian grain products are in demand on the global market. Therefore, Ukrainian grains have the required qualitative…
Azerbaijan hired McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting firm, to develop a road map for the country’s economy to 2025 and beyond. “We were expecting to enter the post-oil era in about 10-15 years, but we have practically found ourselves in that situation already today”, Natiq Amirov, Azerbaijani presidential aide on economic reforms, said.…
Malaysia’s oil and gas company Petronas will conduct exploration at the Goshadash structure in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, First Vice President of the Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR Khoshbakht Yusifzade said. Yusifzade said that the exploration could be deepened in future, but currently general works, including seismic works, were underway. “If the…
Logistics problems slow down the growth of Russian soybeans exports to China, namely the absence of transport routes of the oilseed to the country, the President of the Russian Grain Union Arkadiy Zlochevskiy said. Russia supplies soybeans to China, but the export volumes are quite low. The eastern region of Russia has large-scale stocks of…
Kazakhstan is holding negotiations to increase the quotas for the supply of wheat to the People’s Republic of China to 400 thousand tons per year, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Gulmira Isayeva declared. In accordance with the protocol signed in December 2015, Kazakh businesses received permission to export wheat not in bags, but in bulk…