Ex-Soviet republic Tajikistan marked the start of construction of a controversial $4 billion Rogun hydroelectric dam conceived in the Soviet era, the presidential press service said. The high-profile ceremony was held in Rogun some 100 km from the capital of Dushanbe and saw President Emomali Rakhmon spend an hour-and-a-half behind the wheel of a bulldozer…
Belarusian specialists might participate in the construction of the “Meridian” road route from Kazakhstan to Bryansk, which will be 2 thousand km long. Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin reported after the meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak in Moscow. According to Anatoly Kalinin, the arrangement between Belavtodor and Russian contract giver…
As part of the country’s preparation for the Astana EXPO 2017, Prime Minister Karim Massimov has surveyed construction sites of the Congress Center, Hotel Complex, EXPO Office, EXPO Town and international pavilions, the PM’s press service informs. Chairman of JSC Astana EXPO 2017 Akhmetzhan Yessimov reported to the PM about fulfillment of the Presidential instructions…
President of the Khorgos International Near-Border Cooperation Center Kakharman Jazin says that investors offer to build Disneyland in the Kazakh part of the Center. “A day or two ago we received a proposition to build Disneyland. I am not sure in possibility of implementation of such an ambitious project. Of course, there are some advantages…
Hungary is ready to allocate EUR 50 million under a project for the construction of a bypass road around the west-Ukrainian town of Berehove and a road that will link Berehove with Mukacheve, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has said. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Hungary met in…
On October 26, the work of the fifteenth anniversary international conference “Fat-and-Oil Industry – 2016” started with the ceremony of opening of a new tank complex at LLC NE Terminal UPSS, located on the territory of the Dnepr-Bug Sea Port, in Mykolaiv. The new tank complex of Terminal UPSS, which became the sponsor of the…
Dredging at the Ukrainian port of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky has reached 800,000 cubic meters this year. The works have been performed by the equipment of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and its specialized contractor, USPA says. Vessels of up to 3.1 m in draught can now call the port. The port of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky was set up in…