On Saturday, November 19, 6 deals totaling $9.5 million and 666.7 thousand Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Turkmenistan has increased natural gas exports to China by 53% in 10 months of this year, TASS reports with reference to the Main Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China.
The transport and logistics sector was named as a strategic vector of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the UAE at the talks between Presidents Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Monday, November 21.
“The length of paved roads in the Central Asian region has increased by 24.5 thousand km over the past 20 years. The most significant progress can be noted in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where the most large-scale road construction has been launched,” says the report of the Eurasian Development Bank “Economy of Central Asia: a new look”.
On Friday, November 18, 8 deals totaling $14.7 million and 2.4 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Chairman of the upper house of the Turkmen Parliament Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said that the potential of the Turkmenbashi International Seaport can be used to increase transport links and cargo traffic, which will increase the efficiency of the Baku—Tbilisi—Kars railway line.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov outlined to the government the need for comprehensive development of the industrial sector, increasing the volume of production of particularly popular construction products and maximizing the use of production capacities of specialized enterprises for ongoing large-scale construction projects in the country.
Chairman of the Turkish parliament Mustafa Shentop confirmed Turkey's readiness for the transit of Turkmen gas to Europe, TDH reports following talks between the head of the upper house of the Turkmen parliament Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his Turkish counterpart.
The procedure for establishing protected zones for railways and other railway transport facilities was approved by the decree of the President of Turkmenistan. The document was signed on Friday, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the country, on the proposal of the Director General of the Agency for Transport and Communications under the Cabinet of Ministers Mammetkhan Chakiev.
USAID, together with DAI, within the framework of the TCA (Trade in Central Asia) initiative, announced a vacancy for a Regional Trade Facilitation Advisor.
The participants of the 18th European Union—Central Asia Ministerial Meeting confirmed their desire to strengthen trade and economic cooperation to overcome existing crises, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reports following the meeting.
The next meeting of the Turkmen-Austrian commission for economic cooperation and a business forum within its framework will be held in Ashgabat on November 29-30.
The plan for the construction of the TAPI gas pipeline (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) has already been developed and it can be implemented within 3-4 years, and the supplies through this branch will allow Pakistan to receive more than 35 million cubic meters of gas per day.
On Thursday, November 17, 6 deals worth over 6 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Participants of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan called for the complete unfreezing of the country's blocked foreign assets and the adoption of measures to unblock the retained national reserves of Afghanistan.
