OAO Belgazprombank will act as an agent bank to secure the execution of an agreement between Belarus government and Gazprombank on financing Belarusian exports to Russia. In accordance with Belarus government resolution No. 769 dated September 27, Belgazprombank will charge a fee of up to 0.02% of the amount to be compensated by Belarus at…
The Belarusian national electrical company Belenergo and Siemens Company have signed a cooperation agreement, the Belenergo press service reported. The document was signed by Belenergo Director General Yevgeny Voronov and Siemens AG Vice President Willi Meixner. The sides intend to work together on the concept and preliminary technical solutions for using Siemens-made gas turbine power…
Belarus raised export duties on oil and oil products, exported outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, on October 1. The relevant decision was stipulated by the Council of Ministers’ executive order No. 773 of September 27, the press service of the Belarus government reported. The export duty on crude oil goes up…
Belarus plans to increase its industrial production in Moldova, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said, as he commented on the forthcoming official visit to Moldova. “We have been steadily developing bilateral cooperation. A number of assembly plants have already been set up. We plan new companies and think of increasing production”, Andrei Kobyakov said. According…
Belarus’ cargo traffic by all means of transport reduced by 4.5% YoY in January-August to 285.566 million tons, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus (Belstat) said in a report. Cargo transportation by railways in January-August stood at 81.602 million tons (down by 5% YoY), including transit cargo traffic – 20 million tons (down by 22.3%).…
OAO Belagroprombank is planning to attract the loan of the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) to sponsor environmental projects. The relevant agreement was signed by the bank and NEFCO on September 28, in Minsk. The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) is an International Financial Institution established by the Nordic Governments in 1990. NEFCO provides results-based…
In January-August the joint index of costs for production of agricultural commodities in Ukraine (without the Crimea) increased by 12.4% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine informed. In particular, the costs for plant growing commodities production went up by 9.1% YoY, and animal commodities – by 20.9%. According to the statistics data, in August…