Minister of Finance and Economy Muhammetgeldi Serdarov met with founder and President of the Belgian magazine Diplomatic world Barbara Dietrich and project manager of the publication Alberto Turkstra in the building of the financial and economic complex of Turkmenistan.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban plans to sign an agreement on joining the network of consumers of Azerbaijani electricity on December 17 in Bucharest, Romania, reports About Hungary.
The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is part of the Southern Gas Corridor, will increase its capacity to 20 billion cubic meters of gas by 2027 thanks to investments in the overhaul of the branch, said Luca Shippati, managing director of TAP AG, in an interview with the Interfax news agency.
"For this purpose, there are all the necessary communications - railway tracks and approaches to highways. The facility can become a "dry"port as part of the development of a port special economic zone," Igor Babushkin, the governor of the Astrakhan Region, wrote in his Telegram channel.
Uzbekistan imports 1.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Turkmenistan in winter to meet domestic demand, a representative of the Fuel and Energy Department of the Uzbek Cabinet of Ministers told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
On the Volga-Caspian Sea Shipping Canal, dredging will begin in 2023 to ensure the optimal passing draft of vessels of 4.5 meters. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Cabinet of Ministers and the government of the Astrakhan region to implement this project jointly. The corresponding document is published on the Kremlin website.
Uzbekistan has increased electricity imports from Turkmenistan due to an increase in domestic consumption during the cold weather, the press service of the Uzbek Ministry of Energy reported on Friday.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a decree on pardon in honor of the International Day of Neutrality. According to the document, 308 people will be released from further serving the main sentence in the form of imprisonment.
Turkish President Rejep Tayyip Erdogan and the head of the Russian energy company Gazprom Alexey Miller discussed the supply of Russian gas to Turkish consumers, as well as the prospects for creating a gas hub, the company said following a working visit of its delegation to Turkey.
The UAE delegation, headed by Minister of Industry and Advanced Technologies Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, is currently holding talks with the government of Turkmenistan and met with President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Friday.
Uzbekistan, despite the shortage of electricity in winter, continues to export it to Afghanistan to cover import costs, Deputy Prime Minister, Energy Minister Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov said.
The representative office of the Turkmen Railways (Turkmendemiryollary) will open in Russia, and the office of the Russian Railways company in Turkmenistan. An agreement on this was reached in Moscow during a meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission for Economic Cooperation, the press service of Russian Railways said in a statement.
On Friday, December 9, 3 deals totaling $3.7 million and 262.5 thousand Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Uzbek entrepreneurs are negotiating with the Turkmen individual enterprise “Begenç”, a manufacturer of antifreeze, on exporting the product to Uzbekistan, the press service of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (UIET) reports.
On the eastern route of the international transport corridor "North-South", passing through Turkmenistan, progressive growth was noted. If in 2021 700 tons of cargo were transported through it, then in 11 months of 2022 - almost 62 thousand tons and 220 containers in communication with Iran, the countries of South Asia and the Persian Gulf. Such data are provided on the website of the government of the Russian Federation, where a report on a recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-Turkmen Commission on Economic Cooperation was published.
