

Ashgabat to host Turkmen-Russian Business Forum in January
The Turkmen-Russian business forum will be held in Ashgabat on January 19-20, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation reported on its website.


The Turkmen-Russian business forum will be held in Ashgabat on January 19-20, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation reported on its website.


Tajik media holding "Asia-Plus" has published data on how much water each of the Central Asian countries will receive in 2023 from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya basins.


Masdar company from the UAE will build a new wind power plant (WPP) with a capacity of 500 MW in the Uzbek city of Zarafshan. This project received the PFI Awards as the deal of the Year in Central Asia. This is reported by the newspaper "Fergana" with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan.


The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China on the interfacing of the international initiatives "Revival of the Great Silk Road" and "One Belt and One Road" is an important outcome of the visit of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to China. This was stated by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin at a press conference on January 10.


In 2022, the volume of traffic between China and Europe reached a new milestone, despite the fact that it was probably one of the most volatile years in Eurasian transport. According to the data released by the Working Conference of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. in early January, China-Europe trains made 16,000 trips in 2022 and delivered 1.6 million TEU.


The exotic banana has "taken root" in Turkmenistan and is now grown here by more than one farm. The company "Hemsaýa" has broken up a banana plantation in the Akhal region – a tropical fruit grows in a greenhouse that covers an area of 5 hectares, the publication "Rysgal" reports.


This was announced by the Minister of External Relations of the Astrakhan region Vladimir Golovkov during a working meeting with the Turkmen Consul in Astrakhan Nury Golliev.


The "Turkmen Shokhle" economy society plans to start production of children's bicycles in the near future, the website of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan reports.


Exchange prices for gas in Europe on the first trading day of the week are growing by 7%, exceeding $ 800 per thousand cubic meters, according to data from the London ICE exchange.


The Chinese manufacturer of railway equipment CRRC Ziyang has signed an online contract for the supply of spare parts to Turkmenistan for locomotives purchased earlier by the country for $30 million, the company said on its Twitter account.


The Turkmenhimiya State Concern has announced an international tender for the purchase of products for the needs of the Garlyk potash mining complex, according to the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.


Kyrgyzstan can turn from an importer into an exporter of electricity, thanks to the implementation of "green" projects and the construction of hydroelectric power plants throughout the country, Sadyr Zhaparov said in his Facebook post.


American agricultural machinery manufacturer Deere Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Association of Farm Bureaus, which allows farmers around the world to repair their equipment independently, Rambler reports.


The mutual trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Georgia for 11 months of 2022 amounted to $176 million, the National Statistical Committee of Georgia reports.


On Friday, January 6, 10 deals totaling $20.1 million were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.