Belarus: Amkodor and Saleo to build 3 plants in 2017

Minsk-based OAO Amkodor and Belarus’ Saleo Group plan to build three new plants in 2017 and implement other projects with a total investment portfolio of $500 million, Igor Kayuda, Amkodor’s Director for Innovations and Investments, reported. Chinese credits will account for 80% of project investments. As previously reported, Amkodor and Saleo Group signed three contracts…

Ukraine: Chinese corporation takes interest in developing Chornomorsk port infrastructure

The seaport of Chornomorsk (former Illichivsk) was visited by representatives of the China National Complete Engineering Corporation (CCEC) and the State Food Grain Corporation of Ukraine. The Chinese are investigating possibilities for implementing joint investment projects to develop the No. 2 terminal’s infrastructure. The port’s management presented development projects designed for the period until 2018.…

Kazakhstan: two main gas pipelines connected

Kazakh national gas transportation operator KazTransGas built a booster compressor station at the connection TIP-02 between the main gas pipeline “Bukhara gas-bearing region-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty” and “Kazakhstan-China”, the company said in a message. The new booster compressor station located in Zhambyl region will allow to have gas pumping between these pipelines, despite different design pressures. This is…