The American rating agency Fitch Ratings has changed the outlook on the long-term issuer default rating (IDR) of Turkmenistan in foreign currency from "Stable" to "Positive" and confirmed the issuer default rating (IDR) at the level of "B+".
Representatives of the Turkish Embassy in Turkmenistan visited the Artyk customs point located on the Turkmen-Iranian state border, the website of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan reports.
Kazakhstan will build 5 trade and logistics hubs at once along the perimeter of its borders by 2025 to expand trade with neighboring states, reports ElDala.KZ.
The Gumdag field in western Turkmenistan in 2023 reached the highest levels in 75 years of its industrial development, the "Oil and Gas" newspaper writes. This became possible thanks to the use of advanced technologies in production.
According to the updated world rating of prices for motor fuel compiled by the GlobalPetrolPrices portal, Turkmenistan maintains the lowest price of gasoline in the Central Asia and CIS region.
The President of Turkmenistan, during an expanded meeting of the government, summing up the development of the national economic complex over the past year, noted that GDP growth amounted to 6.2%. The highest performance was achieved in the trade sector - 8.9%, in industry – 6.3% and in agriculture – 5.7%.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov approved the Program of socio-economic development of Turkmenistan for 2023, which was presented at an expanded meeting of the country's Cabinet of Ministers on Friday.
The head of the World Bank, David Malpass, said that the bank will provide Turkey with $ 1 billion 780 million to help with rescue and recovery work after devastating earthquakes and aftershocks, Anadolu agency reports.
The volume of cargo transportation in Kazakhstan along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TMTM) increased 2.5 times in 2022 and amounted to 1.5 million tons of cargo, The Astana Times reports following a meeting of the TMTM Association.
The 16th meeting of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission (Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia) takes place on Friday, February 10, in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. The Agency of Transport and Communications under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan is also represented at the annual meeting of the heads of the transport sector of the participating countries.
Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller and the energy ministers of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan discussed the possibilities of trilateral cooperation in the gas industry at a meeting on February 9, Gazprom reports.
The Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan invites representatives of business and organizations to take part in the international exhibition "Construction, Industry, Energy of Turkmenistan-2023" (Turkmen Energetika-2023) and the conference "Development of the construction industry and energy industry of Turkmenistan", which will be held in Ashgabat on August 6-7.
The speaker of the lower house of the Pakistani parliament, Raja Pervez Ashraf, at a meeting with the Turkmen Ambassador Atajan Movlamov, proposed to join forces to expand regional communications by air, land and sea, the Daily Times reports.
Representatives of the Turkmen Consulate General in Herat, Afghanistan, discussed with local authorities an increase in the supply of marble from Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, Bakhtar news reports.
Turkmenistan aims to introduce an improved transit system of the CAREC, the website of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan reports.
