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MAKS 2019 to feature over 80 Belarusian defense products
MAKS 2019 will take place on 27 August – 1 September. The Belarusian exposition has been organized by ZAO BelTechExport...

Belarus seeks to export potatoes, beef, poultry to EU
"We also seek access to the EU market for Belarusian poultry meat and want to get the permit for the transit of this meat through the territory of the EU to ports for the further export"...

Talks in progress on EBRD’s plans to buy stake in Belinvestbank
"The sides have only exchanged the first investment proposals. I do not think this process is over. Absolutely normal expert negotiations are in place, just like in any other deal"...

Belarus might ship subway cars to Georgia
"One of the promising avenues of cooperation is to increase supplies of Belarusian passenger vehicles to Georgia. We shipped quite a number of Stadler trains assembled in Belarus for Georgian Railways in 2016-2017. We are considering the export of buses, electric buses and subway cars to Georgia"...

Kazakhstan interested in cooperation with Belarus in mechanical engineering
The next session of the Belarus-Kazakhstan trade and economic cooperation commission is scheduled to take place in early October. Aleksandr Turchin and Yermukhamet Yertysbayev discussed preparations for the session and the work of Belarusian companies on the Kazakh market...

Swiss sub-park might emerge at China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone
Hermann Alexander Beyeler answered that it would be an honor for him to take part in this project. In his words, the Buss Industrial Park occupies an area of 8.5km2 while the area under the Great Stone is 112.5km2...

Belarus, Georgia aim to achieve $200m in trade
“The Belarusian mechanical engineering industry is well developed and we see that Belarusian companies can satisfy the demand of the Georgian agriculture for modern machines and mounted equipment. We are ready to modify Belarusian equipment for Georgian mountainous terrain”...

Belarusian Belkommunmash to ship 8 electrobuses to Batumi in H1 2020
“Literally several days ago Belkommunmash won the tender to supply electobuses to Batumi and will ship the first eight buses in the first half of 2020,” Mikhail Myatlikov said...

Belarus’ Development Bank to double credit limit to finance Belarusian export to Africa
As part of the discussion about prospects of advancing Belarus’ cooperation with African countries DBRB Chairman of the Board Andrei Zhishkevich said that the board had authorized raising the TDB’s credit limit from $70 million to $150 million...

Plans to arrange Belarus-China transboundary digital trade forum in Qingdao on 10 September
The forum’s organization and other things were discussed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Kirill Rudy met with Deputy Secretary General of the China Association of Trade in Services (CATIS) Tian Guofeng on 22 August...

Belarus expects electricity export to double this year
"We constantly work to promote electricity export. The Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) will be part of the Belarusian power system. Electricity will be exported via the national electric company Belenergo"...

Belarusian nuclear power plant to receive nuclear fuel in autumn
“We plan to deliver nuclear fuel to the plant four to six weeks before the reactor start-up. In September, the nuclear power plant will prepare to accept the delivery in line with all the appropriate regulations. We intend to ship the nuclear fuel to the plant this autumn”...

Belarus harvests over 6.2m tonnes of grain
Grain and leguminous plants (except for maize) were cropped from over 1.9 million hectares, which is 92.8% of the total cropping area...

Orsha Linen Mill showcases at Sorochyntsi Fair
This is not the first time the company represents Belarus at this event. The company’s pavilion features linen home textiles and linen clothing...

Belarus-Slovakia economic forum due in Minsk on 18 September
The forum will discuss ways to scale up Belarus-Slovakia trade and economic cooperation. Belarusian participants will have an opportunity to hold talks with representatives of the Slovak business community...

Belarusian companies invited to operate in Russian industrial zone in Egypt
The key goal of the project is to open access to the market of Egypt, its neighbors, and other Middle East and African countries to as large a number of companies from Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union as possible...

Belarusian Amkodor to start making parts at assembly enterprise in Egypt
The document was signed by the Egyptian military production minister, Amkodor’s director general, top executives of ECARD Company (Amkodor’s dealership in Egypt) and the enterprise of the National Organization for Military Production of Egypt where the loaders will be assembled...

Swiss company considering setting up investment fund in Belarus
The company intends to use the fund to finance Belarusian investment projects, primarily in the construction industry, agriculture, and food industry...

Belarus expects to export more food to Turkmenistan
Belarusian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Oleg Tabanyukhov met with Turkmenistan Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations Amandurdy Ishanov to discuss increase in trade...

Belarus president visits private manufacturer of agricultural machines in Ivye District
Among other things the machines the group makes are designed for organic farming while many of the technical solutions are unparalleled in Belarus and abroad...