President Emomali Rahmon visited the site for construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in order to get acquainted with the pace of construction works, according to the Tajik president’s official website. About 75% of work on filling the stone-and-gravel mixture has been completed and the process of installation of two units is underway,…
The National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) has permitted uniting all physical gas transport system (GTS) entry points from a gas producer into one virtual point. The decision is outlined in the NCER resolution No. 615 dated April 28, published in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper on May 10. According to the…
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry has drawn up a draft order proposing to cut and annul some airport charges. Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wrote on his Facebook page that it was proposed to cut the fee for servicing passengers in the international flights terminal, annul the fee for limit-exceeding parking of the aircraft that have aircraft base contracts…
The plans on construction of the Turkmenbashi-Garabogaz-Kazakhstan border highway with a length of 242 kilometers were revealed at the Turkmen government meeting. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov ordered to study the issue of construction of this route, which would become the continuation of the Ashgabat-Turkmenbashi high-speed multimodal highway. The construction of the border highway will…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has forecast a 2% growth of Azerbaijan’s economy in 2018, according to the EBRD’s updated Regional Economic Prospects report. The bank forecasts Azerbaijan’s economy to contract by 0.5% in 2017, according to the report. After a brief period of volatility in the beginning of 2017, the Azerbaijani…
According to the Statistics Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, farms of all types held 10.33 MMT of cereals and pulses as of April 1, up by 16.5% YoY (8.86 MMT). Wheat inventories are up by 12.8%, at 8.65 MMT, including 6.75 MMT of milling wheat, 0.47 MMT of feed wheat and 1.43 MMT of…
The tax reform provides for a major increase of labor costs for small employers. In accordance with Finance Ministry’s offer, these companies will have to find more than EUR 13 million to, at the very least, maintain their business activities, Latvian Traders Association comments on the situation. Authors of the tax reform, on the other…