The next meeting of the Turkmenistan-Latvia intergovernmental commission on economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation will be held in Riga, the Turkmen government said in a message. During the meeting it is planned to discuss the opportunities of expanding the cooperation in transportation and communication sector, in the spheres of agriculture, construction, healthcare, as well…
DetailsThe Uzbek Acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the development of a “roadmap” for expanding the Turkey-Uzbekistan cooperation during the talks in Samarkand on November 18. The two leaders discussed the prospects of the Uzbekistan-Turkey cooperation development and exchanged views on the important regional and international issues. Shavkat Mirziyoyev and…
DetailsRussia’s oil company LUKOIL attracted a straight loan of $500 million from a consortium of banks in order to finance the project on development of the Gissar gas and condensate fields in Uzbekistan, LUKOIL said in a message. The consortium includes Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg S.A. (Luxembourg), Natixis (France), Mizuho Bank Ltd. (Japan), UniCredit S.p.A.…
DetailsThe Azerbaijani state oil company (SOCAR) has increased the number of its filling stations in Romania to 35, the company said in a message. SOCAR commissioned another filling station under the SOCAR brand name in the Romanian Ilfov County, according to the message. “This station has become the second one in the county. Three counters…
DetailsNorwegian energy companies are interested in entering the Azerbaijani market, Norwegian ambassador to Azerbaijan Bard Ivar Svendsen reported. “Norwegian energy companies have a great interest in Azerbaijan”, he added. “Norwegian companies, which have not started to work in Azerbaijan yet, but considering such an opportunity, appeal to us almost every three months”. He said that…
DetailsLifan 820 Premium car, produced at the Nakhchivan automobile plant (NAZ), was presented in Baku on November 20. “NAZ presents new Lifan models to the customers every year”, Polad Sadikhov, deputy director of the plant, reported. “This is the newest premium car produced at the plant”, he added. “The car with a 2.4-liter engine, six-speed…
DetailsSunmeal exports from Ukraine totaled 142.0 KMT in September against 85 KMT in August and 139 KMT in September 2015. Analysts expect Ukraine’s overall 2016/2017 sunmeal export to reach at least 4400 KMT. The range of export destinations did not change substantially in September. As before, the top buyers of Ukrainian sunmeal are European countries…
DetailsIran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi will visit Azerbaijan, Shahin Mustafayev, Azerbaijani minister of economy, said. Mustafayev made remarks at the meeting with Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Javad Jahangirzadeh. “The issues of mutual interest will be discussed during the visit”, the minister said. Mustafayev and Jahangirzadeh also discussed the issues to be…
DetailsUkraine’s Infrastructure Ministry has announced the start of the infrastructure projects contest. “The Infrastructure Ministry with the help of the reform support group has announced the start of the infrastructure projects contest. This means that any region, city, town or rural community could submit an application to look for an investor to implement projects in…
DetailsAccording to the November balance sheets by NGO “Economic discussion club”, coordinated by the Interdepartmental working group under the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine, in September-October of 2016/2017 MY the export volumes of sunflower oil from Ukraine totaled 706 thousand tons. The general export volumes of sunflower oil in the current season are forecast…
DetailsThe program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides not only cash, but is also aimed at increasing the economy’s sustainability in Ukraine. Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Dmytro Solohub explained that this is why tapping international financial markets should not be a replacement for the IMF’s reform program, although “in…
DetailsIndustrial Milk Company (IMC) saw a 17.1% YoY fall in net profit in January-September 2016, to $16.69 million. According to a company report on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), its revenue fell by 19.9%, to $80.25 million. Taking into account the published data for H1 2016, the company saw $2.07 million of net loss in…
DetailsAll the accumulation of money from oil sales of Azerbaijan and also spending are transparent and internationally audited, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said during a meeting with a group of participants of the 5th News Agencies World Congress in Baku. “Oil, of course, is a big asset. But it depends on how you take advantage…
DetailsEU farmers will keep soft wheat area the same for the 2017 harvest despite the depressant of weak prices, Strategie Grains said, citing a limited switching of land to rapeseed instead. The influential analysis group in its first detailed forecast for EU cereals sowings for next year’s harvest pegged soft wheat area at 24.3 million…
DetailsDanosha company will invest next year in equipment that will enable producing soybean oil and cake right at the plant. Over the recent years, soybeans have been sown in the test mode to check out if the local conditions are suitable for this crop. In late October Danosha finished soybean harvesting with a yield of…
DetailsThe Swiss company Risoil S.A. declared its readiness to continue investing in construction of a grain terminal in SE Commercial Sea Port of Chernomorsk, the press-service of the company reported. In 2014 the company started construction of a grain terminal Risoil Terminal. In March the terminal was put into operation, and Risoil launched the first…
DetailsAccording to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of November 10, 759.9 thousand ha of sunflower had been threshed, or 99.9% of the plan. 1699.7 KMT had been threshed with an average yield of 2.24 MT/ha. Soybean had been threshed from 14.4 thousand ha, or 99.3% of the harvested area (14.5 thousand ha). 18.6 KMT of…
DetailsRepresentatives of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan met in Ashgabat to discuss a draft protocol on cooperation in safety of shipping in the Caspian Sea. The agreement creates a legal basis for cooperation between the parties in the fight against terrorism, organized crime, arms and drugs trafficking, smuggling, human trafficking, illegal immigration, as well…
DetailsAzerbaijan will supply 500,000 bottles of wine to China, the Economy Ministry said. The ministry said that the agreement on the supply was reached during the visit of an export mission of Azerbaijani entrepreneurs to Hong Kong and Guangzhou on November 9-15. During the visit, the Azerbaijani entrepreneurs took part in two international exhibitions of…
DetailsTotal production at the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) was on average 644,000 barrels per day (b/d) (over 176 million barrels or 24 million tons in total) in January-September, same as in January-September 2015, BP Azerbaijan has said. According to the BP Azerbaijan report, 53,000 b/d of that volume accounted for Chirag platform, 149,000 b/d – Central…
DetailsAzerbaijan is one of the important countries for Northern Cyprus in the field of tourism development, Fikri Ataoglu, Cypriot minister of tourism and environment, said. Ataoglu is expected to visit Azerbaijan on November 29. Northern Cyprus’s potential for tourism will be presented as part of the visit. The minister will be accompanied by a delegation,…
DetailsBoard of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) plans to consider the allocation of a loan worth $600 million for the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project in March 2017, the AIIB reported. The AIIB said that the loan would be allocated for the Southern Gas Corridor CJSC. Azerbaijan is one of…
DetailsJoint operations of public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia and Karpatygaz LLC resulted in production of 53.7 million cubic meters of gas and 2,700 tons of gas condensate in October, according to a posting on the website of Misen Energy AB‚ (Sweden, the owner of the controlling stake in Karpatygaz). In addition, 400 tons of oil and…
DetailsAs of November 14, winter crops were planted on 6911 thousand ha, or 94% of the forecast area of 7374 thousand ha. This included 5888 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale – 95% of the projected area (5597 thousand ha in 2015), 157 thousand ha of rye – 107% (145 thousand ha in 2015),…
DetailsThe Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine is planning to halve port charges. According to the ministry, Ukraine loses because of its overcharged port dues lead to shrinking freight traffic. The ministry is currently working on tariff reduction. The final approval of a new port tariffs and charges technique that would at least halve them is scheduled…
DetailsMoldova’s outgoing President Nicolae Timofti praised the level of the Belarusian-Moldovan relations and emphasized the trustworthy bilateral dialogue at the highest level, the Belarusian embassy in Moldova reported. Nicolae Timofti mentioned it in his face-to-face talks with the Belarus’ Ambassador to Moldova Sergei Chichuk who took part in the Moldovan President’s meeting with heads of…
DetailsBelarus and Venezuela are discussing the launch of supplies of Belarusian food. This issue was addressed during a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Venezuela Oleg Paferov and Venezuela’s Food Minister Rodolfo Marco Torres, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus reported. “The parties discussed the development of bilateral cooperation in the…
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