National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy expects that the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce would issue a verdict in litigations with Russia’s Gazprom by the end of the first half of 2017, Naftogaz Commercial Director Yuriy Vitrenko wrote on his Facebook page. “We are on the homestretch, hearings will start next month. The…
Kazakhstan set a task to move from the 77th place to the 40th place in the rankings of world’s countries with the best logistics climate by 2020. “Building high-quality transport and logistics infrastructure and conducting flexible tariff policy and strengthening partnership relations between the participants of the market allowed to improve the quality of transport…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of August 4, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout 587.7 thousand ha, or 36.9% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 1.29 million tons of grains, up by 245 thousand tons YoY. The average yield…
An Iranian private company is negotiating gas swap with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Azizollah Ramazani, director of the International Affairs Department at the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), said. He did not unveil further details. Iran has already announced readiness for natural gas swap projects with Russia, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. It was earlier announced that Iran…
The first airplane Boeing-787 Dreamliner of Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) underwent painting stage. Photos of the airplane Boeing-787 Dreamliner in the colors of the flag of Uzbekistan were published at microblogging network Twitter. The Boeing-787 Dreamliner will arrive in Uzbekistan in August during the celebrations of the Independence Day of Uzbekistan. The Boeing 787…
The cost of the project on construction of new international passenger terminal of Tashkent Airport (Tashkent-4) will make up $336 million. Investment project “Construction of new international passenger terminal of Tashkent Airport (Tashkent-4)” is implemented in cooperation with the Republic of Korea. Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provided a grant for development of the feasibility…
Forestry industries of Belarus and Kazakhstan intend to advance scientific, technical, trade and economic cooperation. The agreement was reached when a Belarusian delegation led by Forestry Minister Mikhail Amelyanovich met with Deputy Agriculture Minister of Kazakhstan Yerlan Nysanbayev, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. Representatives of forestry enterprises and organizations,…