Representatives of the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development of Iran discussed on Monday the organization of an international transport corridor through Turkmenistan. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan on July 31.
On the initiative of the diplomatic mission of Turkmenistan in Brussels on Monday, negotiations were held with the leadership of the Belgian cargo airline Challenge Airlines, based in Liege. The carrier provides air cargo transportation throughout Europe, America, the Middle East and Africa.
The trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the first half of 2023 increased by 4.7% compared to the same period last year, reaching $438 million. According to this indicator, Turkmenistan ranks fourth in the ranking of Uzbekistan's largest trading partners among the CIS countries, second only to Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Cooperation between the railway departments of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan was discussed in Tashkent by representatives of the Agency "Turkmendemiryollary" ("Turkmen Railways") and "Uzbekistan Temir Yullari" "Uzbek Railways". During the talks, the parties discussed a number of key topics and issues of bilateral cooperation, Podrobno.uz reports.
The boom in the development of artificial intelligence technologies has not yet led to the emergence of a "bubble" in the stock market, Fundstrat analyst Tom Lee is sure, writes Investing.com.
China's General Administration of Customs has released trade data for the first half of 2023 with Central Asian countries. Turkmenistan is the only one of the five states in the region with a positive trade balance with China.
The Afghan Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that a batch of drinks with pomegranate juice was exported from Afghanistan to the United States for the first time. The drinks were produced by a company in Herat.
29,660 kilometers of gas pipelines were laid throughout the Dashoguz region, the state order for large-scale gasification of settlements and industrial infrastructure was exceeded by 2%. Such data is provided by the newspaper Nebit-Gaz.
The directory of the state concern "Turkmennebit", responsible for oil production at the Goturdepe field, increased the production of black gold by 10% in the first six months of this year, bringing this figure to more than half a million tons of raw materials.
Batyr Ravshanov, a Turkmen entrepreneur from the Ak Bugday district of the Ahal region, has established the export of strawberries to the United Arab Emirates. The first batches of Albion berries have already arrived in Dubai, the newspaper "Rysgal" reports.
Smooth-dyed and jacquard terry products ($4.60 per kg) and various types of cotton yarn (from $2.30 to $2.60 per kg) were sold for export during trading at the State Commodity Exchange of Turkmenistan on Saturday, July 22, ORIENT correspondent reports.
The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline Consortium (TAP), which is designed to transport natural gas from the Caspian Sea and the Middle East to Western Europe, has begun work on increasing the supply of blue fuel. This is reported by Trend with reference to the company TAP AG.
The Chamber of Commerce and Investment of Afghanistan said that agreements worth $ 45 million were signed at the international trade fair that ended on Sunday in Kabul, in which, in addition to local industrialists, trading companies from Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Pakistan took part, TOLOnews reports.
The National gas company of Kazakhstan, QazaqGaz, intends to start transporting Russian gas to Uzbekistan from October 2023, the company's press service said in a recent statement transmitted by TASS. Chairman of the Board of QazaqGaz Sanzhar Zharkeshov conducted an inspection of the infrastructure in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan, which will facilitate the transit of Russian natural gas to Uzbekistan through the Kazakhstan section of the Central Asia — Center main gas pipeline.
The 9th meeting of the heads of customs administrations of the member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was held on July 21 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in a hybrid format.
