Business news

Longer warranty period for Belarus-made Geely cars under consideration
“We should extend the warranty period to five years. We already offer four years and 100,000km of mileage. We need five years. It has to be done”...

Belarus-Germany tighter cooperation in electric transportation suggested
“We see additional opportunities for stepping up economic cooperation through opening new joint ventures meant to make high-tech products"...

Over half of Vitebsk Oblast-made innovative products bound for export
According to Oleg Matskevich, innovative products account for nearly 30% of the sales of Vitebsk Oblast industrial companies. This figure is one of the highest in Belarus...

Hope for robust business cooperation between Belarus, Germany
"We welcome the growing interest of German business in Belarus and are ready to provide necessary support to joint Belarusian-German projects oriented at the huge market of the Eurasian Economic Union and China’s New Silk Road initiative"...

Belagroprombank, Helaba sign agreement on long-term financing
"Developing a solid legal framework with the Bank that has a strong financial position and an extensive customer network in the industrialized regions of Germany will increase the capacity of Belagroprombank in terms of long-term financing of foreign trade projects"...

St Petersburg Exchange interested in Belarus’ experience
"BUCE-authored methodology and software solutions ensure the necessary level of competition and transparency in trading, and make the resources equally available for all the competitors"...

Poland’s Lodz Voivodeship interested in tighter cooperation with Vitebsk Oblast
The relevant statement was made by Ewa Lapaj, head of the marketing support center of the Polish town of Radomsko, in Vitebsk...

Belarusian electric bus on trial runs in Saint Petersburg
Belkommunmash will ship another 25 vehicles of the 32100D model to Saint Petersburg by the end of the year. Those are trolleybuses with an increased autonomous range (up to 15km), which can draw power from overhead lines or from their onboard batteries...

Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences elects six foreign members
The session of the NASB General Meeting was held on 16 November. It gathered over 500 representatives of academic and sectoral institutions, universities, government bodies, members of the NASB presidium, top officials, and leading Belarusian scientists...

Unwavering interest in Minsk Forum as Belarus-EU event underlined
"If there was no such forum, we would have to create one. The number of participants, who are eager to take part in it every year, vividly demonstrates that even 20 years down the road the forum is still interesting for both sides"...

Belarus’ business opportunities discussed in Italy
The parties welcomed the mutual interest and imporved environment for intensifying bilateral cooperation...

Minsk Forum 2017 expected to draw hundreds
“The event will draw about 300 participants from Belarus, Germany, other EU countries, and also the neighboring states of Belarus. There will representatives from the United States,” Rainer Lindner noted...

Irkutsk Oblast businessmen eager to cooperate with Belarusian companies
Sergei Levchenko mentioned some promising avenues of cooperation, among them supplying Belarusian-made agricultural vehicles and equipment to Irkutsk Oblast, setting up processing companies in agriculture and wood industry in the region...

Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer reports soaring export figures
The top five customer countries (in physical terms) included Russia, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Major non-CIS customers are Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Angola...

Belarus remains 32nd in Global ICT Development Index
Just like in the previous year’s report Belarus is ranked 32nd and is the CIS leader in the development of information and communication technologies. Belarus is ahead of a number of European nations, too — Lithuania, Latvia, Czechia, Italy, and Poland...

Slovakia shows interest in advancing Belarusian medicines to European market
"Such cooperation is of great importance for enhancing mutual competitiveness of Belarus and Slovakia. Joint projects in research activities, education and other sectors can be successful as well"...

Belarus’ agricultural export to EU 50% up in 2017
"We’ve increased export to European Union countries by 56% in comparison with last year. We ship our products to 19 European Union countries. We sell casein, whey powder, rapeseed oil, and other products"...

Belarus’ agricultural output up by 2.9% in January-October 2017
“In January-October the agricultural sector displayed positive growth dynamics. The agricultural production in all categories of farms rose by 2.9%, in state-run agricultural organizations by 3.8%,” the minister said...

Belarusian food quality assured at every step
“Have we ever heard of Belarusian food becoming dangerous in Belarus? Never. It doesn’t happen because we have a quality management system in place to control every stage from an incoming inspection of raw materials to processing, storage, and shipment"...

Belarus to take part in Israfood expo
Israfood is Israel’s biggest food exhibition that feature a great variety of food products, including dairy products, meat and poultry, confectionary, alcoholic and soft beverages. In 2016 the event was visited by more than 18,000 catering industry experts...