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Plans to create Belarusian robotic milking system
Sergei Yakovchik remarked that the latest agricultural machines and equipment of the Applied Research Center for Agriculture Mechanization are intended for smart agriculture, which is based on automated and robotized processes...

Belarusian steel export to USA unaffected
“As a result of negotiations with our clients in the USA the market for the staple products – seamless pipes and high pressure wire – remains stable, the volume has been preserved. American consumers have taken care of compensations”...

BCCI to help exporters enter far-away markets
Vladimir Ulakhovich believes that by 2020 Belarus should equalize its exports to the EAEU, the EU and other markets, including far-away countries (Asia and Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America)...

Merchandise export by Belarusian steel mill BMZ over 30% up in H1 2018
In January-June 2018 BMZ exported 957,000 tonnes of merchandise worth $611.7 million or 131.5% as against H1 2017...

Belarusian BelAZ opens truck maintenance center in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast
The technical support center is compliant with international standards: it is fitted with modern equipment and a warehouse of original spare parts...

Belarus’ MFA suggests new export support instruments
We hope that two ideas will materialize this year. This is a 50% compensation to our exporters for participation in exhibitions and fairs abroad (50% of the cost of exhibition space and expenses for the construction of a pavilion will be compensated)...

Minsk airport sees 8.7% increase in passenger traffic in H1 2018
Since the beginning of the year the passenger traffic at the country's main airport has exceeded over 1.94 million passengers. The airport has handled 12,139 flights (up by 5.8%)...

Belarus to highlight Great Stone industrial park advantages during China International Import Expo
"Using national symbols to create the image of the national pavilion for the international expo in Shanghai, we say that Belarusians are a modern nation, which carefully preserves its cultural traditions"...

Bellegprom, Sistema Moda Italia discuss prospects for cooperation in 2019
A Belarusian delegation led by Bellegprom’s head Nikolai Yefimchik is attending Milano Unica, the Italian Textiles and Accessories Trade Show...

Belarus expected to take active part in China International Import Expo 2018
"The expo, which is scheduled to take place in Shanghai on 5-10 November 2018, should become kind of a new platform for more actively promoting Belarusian products to China and creating new vectors of Belarusian-Chinese cooperation"...

Belarus’ export 21.9% up in January-May
In January-May 2018 Belarus increased the export of merchandise and services by 21.9% in comparison with the same period of last year to $16.7 billion...

Belarus president wants industrial, logistics hub in Orsha District sooner
The industrial and logistics hub will include an automobile terminal and a railway one, an aviation sector, universal manufacturing modules, an industrial zone, showrooms, and a hotel...

Belarusian meat-packing plants seek to obtain UAE halal certificate
The UAE is dependent on imports for 85-90% of its food needs. By the import volume this market is ranked 15th in the world. "This is a big market. This is not only domestic consumption but a huge flow of re-export to the countries of the Arabian peninsula, Africa"...

Belarusian BelAZ, partners from Russia to create robot system for open pit mining
BelAZ specialists are hard at work creating new mining vehicles to meet the latest trends on the global market. Creating transport solutions controlled using the GPS technology is one of the projects...

Belarusian food export to Germany 22% up in January-May
Belarusian non-food export is on the rise, too. "We register rising export figures across the board"...

Six Belarusian food companies seek right to export to European Union
"Our main EU partners are Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Germany. Certainly, the European market is interesting for us"...

Inflation in Belarus at 0.4% in June 2018
In June 2018 the index of consumer prices for goods and services totaled 100.4% as against May 2018 and 102.9% as against December 2017...

Russian restrictions on Belarusian dairy exports ruled unlawful
Belarus and Russia are ready to lift restrictions from dairy trade. The relevant roadmap will be implemented to make it happen...

Chinese investor to set up woodworking, furniture enterprises in FEZ Vitebsk
The administration of the free economic zone (FEZ) Vitebsk and the Chinese company Blue Lotus have signed an agreement of intent to set up furniture making and woodworking enterprises in the free economic zone...

EBRD ready to support E5P grants for Belarus with €45m in loans
“Apart from that, we would like to scale up cooperative relations in central heating and implement projects in transport and street lighting,” Lin O'Grady said...