According to Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture, as of November 17, 760.6 thousand ha of sunflower had been threshed, which was 100% of the plan. 1701 KMT had been threshed with an average yield of 2.24 MT/ha. Harvesting campaign showed better results compared to last year. As of November 17, 14.4 thousand ha of soybean has…
DetailsBelarus and Slovakia intend to cooperate in power engineering, pharmaceutics, and petrochemical industry. The relevant agreement was reached during the meeting of Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov and Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico on November 25. Cooperation in woodworking, information technologies, agriculture, and tourism also looks promising. Andrei Kobyakov reported that a large…
DetailsAzerbaijan Railways CJSC considers it necessary to organize a meeting of working groups to analyze and evaluate the dispatch of test container trains from Mumbai to Russia via Iran and Azerbaijan, Javid Gurbanov, head of the Azerbaijani Railways CJSC, said. “Several test containers were sent from Mumbai to Russia in October. This was the first…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine canceled the ban on blending of grain crops of different grades (adjustments to the Decree of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy No. 661 dated December 13, 2008), the press-service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine declared. According to the announcement, due to the action of…
DetailsThe Azerbaijani government is ready to assist all participants of the international North-South transport corridor in every way possible, Sahil Babayev, Azerbaijan’s deputy economy minister, said. “Azerbaijan, being a member of such multimodal projects as North-South and West-East transport corridors, sees itself as a regional hub. Logistics and infrastructure development is necessary for development of…
DetailsAddressing the International Rail Business Forum titled “Strategic Partnership 1520: Caspian region”, Head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov spoke about priorities of the company’s activities. The priority directions of the activity of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC for 2017-2018 includes the development of the North-South transport corridor, renewal of infrastructure from Yalama to Astara in order…
DetailsAzerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has cancelled his visit to Vienna, where he planned to take part in the second meeting of the OPEC High-level Committee, established by the Algiers Accord, with non-OPEC oil producing countries, the ministry reported. “The minister has revised his plans for visiting Vienna in connection with the cancellation of this…
DetailsThe Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry is launching a pilot project, initiated by the International Finance Corporation, to improve the quality of grain in Mykolaiv, Odessa, Kirovohrad and Poltava regions. Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) President Volodymyr Klymenko has stated this at a press conference. “The International Finance Corporation (IFC) works for grain quality. The…
DetailsAs of October 1, the volume of Azerbaijan’s foreign state debt amounted to $7.651 billion (12.403 billion manats), that is, 20.1% of the country’s GDP, Azerbaijan’s Finance Ministry said in a message. The statistics on borrowings includes Azerbaijan’s direct obligations and contingent obligations on the loans, drawn under state guarantee. As of October 1, the…
DetailsThe issues of strengthening cooperation in politics, economy and culture have been discussed during the meeting with the Austrian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Gerhard Sailler in Ashgabat, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. “The issues on cooperation within international organizations, primarily the UN, EU and OSCE, were highlighted among the priority areas of cooperation”,…
DetailsA Turkmen delegation presented the country’s transit and transport opportunities at the seaport of Constanta, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. According to the message, the embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania and the administration of the port of Constanta were the organizers of the “round table”. The representatives of the seaport of Constanta,…
DetailsIn 2016 Ukraine will keep the trend of increasing of the profitability of soybeans and rapeseed production, the Director of the National Scientific Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics”, Academician of the NAAS Yuri Lupenko declared. According to scientists of the Institute of Agrarian Economics, in the current year the profitability of soybean production will increase…
DetailsTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier in Ashgabat. According to the message, the priority aspect of cooperation is to ensure energy security as an important factor of global sustainable development. “Strengthening of the constructive cooperation with the OSCE is an important priority of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy strategy,” President Berdimuhamedov said.…
DetailsTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov discussed the further cooperation prospects at the meeting with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili. Stressing that Georgia played an important role in the integration of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, President Margvelashvili confirmed the readiness to act as a reliable partner in the implementation of joint transport projects, the…
DetailsTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met with Karlheinz Kopf, the second president of the Austrian National Council, the Turkmen government said in a message. According to the message, Berdimuhamedov and Kopf discussed the issues of cooperation, established in a bilateral format and through big international organizations and authoritative organizations. The sides also exchanged views on the…
DetailsUkraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure has agreed on the possibility of certification of alternative technical requirements for an individual approval of wheeled vehicles, produced in countries not being EU members. The corresponding decision is fixed in the ministry resolution dated November 18, posted on its website. Certification authorities will be provided with the conclusions of the…
DetailsOne of the important goals of the dialogue aimed at development of transportation in the world is to create an appropriate transport, transit and logistics system in Central Asia and the Caspian region, the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said. He made the remarks addressing the opening ceremony of the UN global conference on sustainable transport.…
DetailsLatvia’s Dobeles Dzirnavnieks grain processing company plans to increase exports to Scandinavia, the company’s board chairman Kristaps Amsils. “This year and next year we will continue focusing on our new products with higher added value. At present we are already exporting to the Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Our sales volumes are growing…
DetailsThe European Union has stated its willingness to promote fast introduction of autonomous trade preferences provided for the Ukrainian government. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this during a joint press conference with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker following the Ukraine-EU Summit, the president’s press service…
DetailsHead of Ukroboronprom State Concern Roman Romanov has stated that currently only 56 out of the 105 enterprises in the group structure are profitable. He noted plans to liquidate six companies in the holding. “There are 105 enterprises within the scope of the concern’s responsibility, of which, according to the draft resolution of the Cabinet…
DetailsKazakhstan started the new flour season of 2016/2017 with brisk exports. 177 KMT of flour was supplied to foreign markets in September, up by 18.6% YoY (149.2 KMT in September 2015). In addition, the September export volume is the largest for this month since 2010. The top importers of Kazakh flour remain the same neighboring…
DetailsAccording to the Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in October the production volumes of vegetable oils reached the record figures – 33.6 thousand tons. During two months of 2016/2017 MY the figure exceeded the production of vegetable oils in the same period last season by 30%. A significant increase in the production…
DetailsAn auction to sell Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) aroused competition among investors. Dialog is being held about the privatization of Odessa Port-Side Plant, Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Ihor Bilous said. “We held a good auction to sell Myhia HPP. We broke a record putting it up for 10 million UAH and…
Details$1.1 billion have been invested in Azerbaijan’s economy through investment tenders, Rafig Jalilov, deputy chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Property Issues, said. Volume of the domestic production rose by 1.5 billion manats thanks to these investments, according to him. Around 47,000 industry, trade, transportation and other state facilities, as well as non-residential facilities and…
DetailsPlans have been made to build a large waste recycling plant at the border of Smolevichi district and Borisov district. The enterprise will utilize a complete production cycle, Nikolai Svirsky, Head of the Beautification and Secondary Material Resources Department of the state enterprise Minsk Region Utilities, reported. As much as 65 million euro in foreign…
DetailsOn November 14-20, it was cooler than usual and insignificant precipitation was registered. The average weekly air temperature in the country was +1.1-3.7 degrees C, or 1.0-1.5 C below normal. Minimum air temperatures reached 6 degrees C below zero. Almost no precipitation was observed during the week, just at most 1-3 mm (5-35% of normal)…
DetailsInternational British procurement agency Crown Agents plans to purchase drugs and medical products from funds of the national budget of Ukraine for 2016 by March next year, Crown Agents senior procurement consultant Christine Jackson has said. According to the terms outlined in the agreement Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and Crown Agents signed on October 27,…
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