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Europe-China rail freight traffic via Belarus up 1.6 times in January-September
Taking into account the continuing growth of container traffic, the Belarusian Railways, together with the participants of the transport services market, has been developing new routes through the Belarusian-Polish border crossings Bruzgi/Kuznica Bialostocka and Svisloch/Siemianowka...

Belarus to reduce export duties on oil, petroleum products on 1 November
In line with the document, the export duty on crude oil will be $42.2 per tonne, down from $45.4 per tonne...

Belarus’ sufficient capability to train personnel for nuclear energy industry pointed out
She pointed out that back in 2007 before the decision in favor of building a nuclear power plant was made, the Energy Ministry and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus used international experience to evaluate what specialists the Belarusian nuclear power plant will need. The sides concluded it was necessary to work out a special personnel training program...

Gomelglass’ export 9% up in January-September
Gomelglass shipped over one third of its export to Ukraine, about one fourth to Russia, and 20% to Poland and the Baltic states...

Business club to showcase Belarus' economic potential in Japan
Belarus' Ambassador to Japan Ruslan Yesin held meetings with representatives of Japanese businesses interested in expanding trade and economic cooperation with Belarusian exporters...

New projects for Great Stone Park discussed
Aleksandr Yaroshenko said that the participants of the national process on digitalization of logistics are interested in launching a pilot project at the Great Stone to implement an integration platform of the national system of electronic logistics with the use of 5G technology. This will help to ensure digitalization of interaction in supply chains, create conditions for its acceleration and implementation of electronic document flow...

Belarus to take part in food exhibitions of Turkey, UAE
The CNR Food Istanbul exhibition will be held in Istanbul on 25-28 November. Last year it was attended by over 650 companies from 17 countries, including the Czech Republic, India, Jordan, Iran, Poland, Serbia, Malaysia and Belarus...

Some 100 Belarusian enterprises certified to export agricultural products to China
Aleksei Bogdanov noted that China is one of the top three importers of Belarusian agricultural products. Active work to certify Belarusian processing enterprises for deliveries to China began in 2015. The work has helped increase export from $0.3 million in 2015 to $131 million in 2019...

MTZ classroom opens in Novosibirsk Agricultural University
The goal of the project is to train students, workers of MTZ dealer centers and specialists of the Novosibirsk Oblast agro-industrial sector...

EEC to host online meeting with Belarusian businessmen
The Economy Ministry of Belarus will host the meeting on 29 October. The parties are due to discuss issues important for the Belarusian business community in conducting entrepreneurship activities as part of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)...

Egypt plans to buy more MTZ machines
"The parties discussed the implementation of the agreements reached at the highest-level talks in February this year. The Agricultural Bank of Egypt started issuing loans for farmers in September, which will facilitate the purchase of Belarusian machines"...

Belarus to take part in Cairo ICT 2020
"Belarusian participants will have an opportunity to present their high-tech products and services at the Made in Belarus exhibition as part of Cairo ICT 2020, and also at thematic conferences. In addition, together with the Belarusian Embassy in Egypt, we are preparing a program of events which will include visits and talks with representatives of IT parks"...

Construction of sulfur plant nearing completion at Mozyr Oil Refinery
The integrated hydrocracking unit of the H-Oil complex is 80% complete. Construction and installation works are in progress there. The pipeline hydrostatic testing, as well as insulation, electrical operations, installation of of test equipment are underway...

China-Belarus industrial park’s accomplishments reviewed
The construction of the park’s engineering and transport infrastructure began five years ago. The first stage occupying 855ha is now ready for the arrival of resident companies and for the dynamic launch of projects. 26 companies in the park already make products, offer services, and focus on R&D work...

Lukashenko: Belarus will build new enterprises using available competencies
"We need to invest in the construction of new enterprises, first of all, high-tech ones. It is useless to build outdated enterprises as they will not be able to compete in the market and sell products"...

Lukashenko happy with performance of Belarus' agricultural industry in 2020
Belarus has gathered a rich grain harvest: more than 10.3 million tonnes, including 8.5 million tonnes of grain crops, corn, rapeseed...

Large batch of raw milk sold via Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange
As much as 92,300 tonnes of raw milk worth Br86.9 million has been sold via the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange since the beginning of the year. To compare, only 14,600 tonnes of raw milk worth Br13.6 million was sold last year...

Construction of pipeline to connect northern, southern oil trunk lines begins in Belarus
The new trunk line will connect the southern branch of the Belarusian oil transport system and the northern one. The Gomel-Gorki line will be 207km long and will cross Gomel District, Buda-Koshelevo District, Chechersk District, and Korma District in Gomel Oblast as well as Cherikov District, Slavgorod District, and Krichev District in Mogilev Oblast...

BelGee named Belarus’ best-selling car brand in Q3 2020
SZAO BelGee was the top seller of cars in Belarus in Q3 2020, BelTA learned from the company’s Chief Production Engineer Vitaly Bylitsky...

Belarusian Vityas offers smart TVs powered by Russian Yandex
Yandex’s Smart TV solution allows customers to watch aerial television channels and use all the advantages of the Smart TV technology as part of the same user interface, including the virtual assistant Alice...