Business news

Smolensk exploring prospects for joint ventures with Grodno Oblast
The business delegation from Smolensk Oblast of Russia came to Grodno Oblast with the aim of finding business partners. The delegation includes representatives of the Smolensk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, retail and wholesale enterprises, manufacturers of textile, children’s apparel and work uniforms...

Grodno, Poland’s Augustow sign agreement on development of cross-border cooperation
The document provides for more active implementation of joint projects, including those in the field of cross-border cooperation...

Belarus, Lithuania discussing making agricultural machines together
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Lithuania Alexander Korol went to Lida on a working trip on 6 September. A meeting of heads of the district’s largest industrial enterprises and representatives of Lithuanian business circles took place there...

Belarus-Pakistan commission on trade and economic cooperation to meet in Brest
The two-day event will discuss a wide range of issues related to the development of bilateral relations. The Pakistani delegation will be led by Minister of Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan. The Belarusian delegation will be headed by Industry Minister Vitaly Vovk...

French businessmen to visit Belarus in early 2017
Belarus’ Ambassador to France Pavel Latushko met with Director of MEDEF International Geraldine Lemble-Pavlov in Paris on 6 September...

Belarus’ Grodno, Poland’s Augustow mulling over joint bridge project
"The project envisages the construction of pedestrian and cycle bridges over the Neman in Grodno and the Netta in Augustow,” Mechislav Goi said during the meeting with the Polish delegation in Grodno...

Second stage of China-sponsored public welfare housing project to begin in Belarus in 2017
“A total of ¥700 million has been granted to implement the project to build public welfare homes. The houses will be owned by municipal authorities. Those, who need such homes, will live there”...

Partizansky District of Minsk presents investment projects to Shanghai delegation
This is the second visit of a Chinese delegation to Partizansky District. A Shanghai delegation led by Chen Gaohong, Chairman of the Xuhui District People’s Congress, paid a visit to the Belarusian capital in June 2015...

Civil engineering expo Budpragres 2016 opens in Minsk
Exhibits are on display indoors and outdoors to showcase new construction products, modern technologies and equipment. Over 200 top construction companies from Belarus, Belgium, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Czechia, Iran, and Ukraine have put their latest products on display...

Belarus plans to expand business ties with Far East
Partnership terms and prospects were discussed during a visit of the Belarusian delegation to Vladivostok where Belarusian representatives took part in the Eastern Economic Forum on 2-3 September...

Plans for Belarusian-Chinese venture to make tractors in Vilnius
Negotiations on setting up a Belarusian-Chinese joint venture to make tractors at premises of ZAO Amkodor Baltic in Vilnius took place on 1-2 September...

Belarus signs agreement on participation in Expo 2017
The expo will be about future energy. In this connection, important discussions and decisions aimed at strengthening the energy security are planned during Expo 2017, Andrei Yevdochenko told reporters...

Gomel Oblast products to be on display in Moscow 28 September
The event will be held at the Business and Culture Center of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. It will be opened by the Days of Gomel Oblast in Moscow. Partaking in the forum will be the representatives of regional administrations, diplomats and businessmen from Moscow Oblast...

Belarusian tractors assembled in Georgia, showcased in Tbilisi
Two of the tractor models were assembled by the joint venture set up by the Georgian company World Technic and OAO Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ) in line with the memorandum signed in 2015...

Primorsky Krai business mission to visit Belarus 　
"The Belarusian delegation led by Deputy Director of the Foreign Economic Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ruslan Yesin is taking part in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on 2-3 September"...

Afreximbank interested in delivery of Belarusian equipment to Africa
The sides agreed to hold negotiations on the financing of the export deliveries of products made by OAO MAZ, MTZ, BelAZ, Amkodor, Gomselmash and other manufacturers by Afreximbank...

Progress on Indian projects in Belarus discussed in Minsk
Mikhail Myasnikovich held a working meeting with representatives of Indian companies to discuss the issues of mutual interest, including the progress on the projects implemented by a number of Indian companies, the press service informed...

Belarus may participate in hotel construction in Georgia
"Belarusians love to visit Georgia. They come to see the sea in Adzharia and go skiing in the mountains. Gastronomic, religious tourism is interesting as well. I think that soon we will consider the projects to build hotels, with the participation of the Belarusian capital"...

Belarus, Georgia to raise bilateral trade to $200m in 2017
Mikhail Rusy noted: “The heads of state have given instructions to reach the trade turnover of $200 million by late 2017. It is doable. We managed to double trade with Georgia in H1 2016 alone”...

NBRB eases foreign currency sale requirement as from 1 September
“The measure will stimulate the investment and business activity of Belarusian economic entities, become an additional step towards harmonization of the currency legislation in the Eurasian Economic Union and will promote the creation of equal conditions for economic entities of the EEU member states in terms of their export potential development”...