Tajikistan and Iran are considering the possibility of increasing the number of flights on the Dushanbe-Tehran air route. Head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has allowed Iranian airlines to increase flights to destination of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Ali Abedzadeh and Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Iran Nematullo Emomzoda reportedly discussed this issue on July 28. They, in…
Tajikistan’s external debt-to-GDP ratio has reached 35.9%, Tajik Finance Minister Abdusalom Qurboniyon announced at a news conference in Dushanbe. “As of June 30, Tajikistan’s external debt amounted to $2.27 billion, or 35.9% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP)”, the minister said. Qurboniyon attributed increase in the external debt to implementation of a number of…
Tajikistan is seeking investors for resumption of operations at the debt-ridden and loss-making fertilizer plant, which is located in the southern province of Khatlon. Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technologies Shavkat Bobozoda noted that some Chinese and European companies had shown interest in TojikAzot, the fertilizer factory located in the Tajik southern city of…
Production of gold at the Pakrut Gold Project is expected to start next month, according to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies (MoINT). An official source at MoINT says the first samples of affinage gold were received at the Pakrut Gold Project in the autumn of 2015 and that was done for the purpose…
Over the first six months of this year, gold mining companies operating in Tajikistan have produced 2,096 kilograms of gold, up by 2% YoY, Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technologies Shavkat Bobozoda said. According to him, most gold has been produced by Tajik-Chinese joint venture – Zeravshan Gold Company (ZGC). “ZGC has reportedly produced…
Tajik national air carrier, Tajik Air, plans to launch transit flights to Belgium and France. Tajik Air Director-General Khairullo Rahimov says the request for launching new flights to Europe has come from partner air companies of China, India and Pakistan. He also noted that Tajik Air had launched an air route from Dushanbe to Beijing,…
The construction of the rail link connecting Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa will be fully completed in September this year, Usmon Qalandarov, the deputy head of Tajik Railways, informed. According to him, rehabilitation of the 25-kilmeter Dushanbe-Vahdat section of the railway has been completed and the construction of the 40.7-kilometer Vahdat-Yovon section of the railway is…