Azerbaijan: GDP up in January 2019

Azerbaijan’s GDP in January amounted to almost 5.9 billion manats, up by 2.9% YoY, the State Statistics Committee reported. GDP per capita was 601.1 manats. The volume of GDP produced in the non-oil sector of Azerbaijan increased by 2.7%, while there was an increase of 3.2% in the oil and gas sector. In 2018, except…

Ukraine: new high-precision multiple rocket launching system showcased at IDEX 2019

Ukraine’s state-owned defense industrial group, Spetstechnoexport, has unveiled for the first time the new model of high-precision multiple rocket launching system Vilkha at the international Defense exhibition IDEX 2019 in the UAE. According to a company statement, the new Ukrainian high precision multiple rocket launching system Vilkha with 300mm caliber missiles is considered one of…

Turkmenistan: transit cargo transportation from China to increase

Turkmenistan’s logistics potential in the field of transit cargo transportation has increased taking into account the commissioned Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran transnational railway. The foreign partners, including China, pay more attention to the transit potential of this route, which has become an important link in the North-South and East-West transport corridors. The total length of the China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran route…

Ukraine: trade with EU up in 3 years

Trade between Ukraine and the EU has increased by 60% in the past three years, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said during his speech at the panel discussion “Security in Eastern Europe” within the framework of the Munich Security Conference. The president noted that Ukraine’s external trade with EU countries accounted for 43%. “Europe for…