Turkmen and Russian companies signed contracts worth 150 billion Russian rubles ($ 2.17 billion at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of January 20) within the framework of the Turkmen-Russian business forum held in Ashgabat, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
The USAID Central Asia Trade Program continues to support the efforts of Central Asian entrepreneurs to enter foreign markets through the "Trade Promotion Service Providers" initiative TPSP (Trade Promotion Service Providers).
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov outlined promising areas of business cooperation with Turkmenistan, speaking at the Turkmen-Russian business forum held in Ashgabat, according to the official website of the head of the republic.
Cooperation between Turkmenistan and Russia in the financial sphere needs to be improved, namely, to create conditions for the transition to mutual settlements in national currencies, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Sergey Katyrin said, speaking at the Turkmen—Russian Business Forum in Ashgabat, the official website of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation reports.
Within the framework of the Turkmen-Russian business forum held in Ashgabat, a round table was held to discuss cooperation between the countries in the field of transport.
A logistics center of Turkmenistan will appear in the port special economic zone of the Astrakhan region. The memorandum on its creation and the cooperation agreement were signed on Friday by Merdan Byashimov, Director General of JSC Transport and Logistics Center of Turkmenistan, and the Head of JSC "SEZ Lotus" by Sergey Milushkin.
Turkmenistan plans to hold an international tender to select a consulting company to assess iron ore reserves at the Chagyl deposit in the west of the country, in the Balkan region. Deputy Prime Minister Charymyrat Purchekov reported this to the president at a meeting of the Turkmen government on Friday.
The volume of transit of Russian cargo through Turkmenistan in 2022 showed an almost fourfold increase compared to the previous year, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov said, speaking at the plenary session of the Turkmen-Russian Business Forum on Thursday.
Kamaz has delivered two electric buses of its own production to Turkmenistan for testing. Sergey Kogogin, General Director of Kamaz, told reporters at the Turkmen-Russian Business Forum, which opened in Ashgabat on Thursday.
The volume of trade between our countries is now at the level of about a billion dollars. Undoubtedly, the potential for economic cooperation is much higher. This was stated by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, speaking at the Turkmen-Russian business forum, which is being held in Ashgabat on January 19-20.
Russian oil companies are ready to participate in joint projects to develop fields in Turkmenistan, the press service of the Russian government reports.
Russian economic operators may take part in the construction and operation of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline as the intra-Afghan situation stabilizes. This is stated in a statement issued on Thursday by the Russian Foreign Ministry following the results of the earlier visit to Kabul of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, reports TASS.
Russia and Turkmenistan are discussing a joint road project - the construction of a highway along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said, speaking at the Russian-Turkmen business forum in Ashgabat on Thursday.
In the week before January 15, the price of bitcoin increased by 23% and statistics show that after such a sharp increase, the cryptocurrency has every chance to rise even more, by about 40% in 3 months, Bloomberg reports.
In 2022, the volume of cargo transportation from Russia through Turkmenistan along the North-South international transport corridor doubled compared to 2021, Interfax reports.
