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Belarusian MTZ exports to Russia's Yakutia up by 18% in January-August
This year the BELARUS machinery supplies to the Republic of Sakha gained momentum. Thus, in January-August 2024 the export growth rate amounted to 118% by volume and 134% by value year-on-year...

Belarus receives first cargo delivery via Northern Sea Route
A batch of goods for Belarusian economic entities was shipped from the port of Shanghai in August 2024. The cargo spent 35 days in transit. Thus, the time of delivery from China to Belarus and back was reduced by almost 40% compared to the usual southern route...

Karankevich: Belarus is keen to boost trade with Russia’s Yakutia
He outlined the prospects for cooperation in the manufacturing sector and drew the delegation's attention to the Belarusian engineering goods...

Lukashenko gives his take on future of IT industry in Belarus
"Nowadays, economic development is impossible without IT specialists" Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized. However, speaking about the future development of the IT industry, he urged not to focus on the HTP. According to the president, the HTP has played its part. It will continue to work, and the state intends to further support it. But the park has already fulfilled its main mission. The effect was quite unexpected"...

Lukashenko reveals plans to set up hi-tech incubators in Belarus
Therefore, as the president assured, the state will continue to invest significant funds in the development of promising sectors: robotics, nanoelectronics, complex self-learning systems and others...

Lukashenko: Belarus will design its own cell phone
“We will also develop a mobile phone, there is a lot of talk about it now. We simply must do it, because gadgets have been turned into combat weapons, as you have seen recently. This is already a matter of national security”...

Lukashenko appoints new heads at several state enterprises
“MTZ is a brand name for Belarus, first of all. Secondly, the tractor is the main tool to use in many venues, from streets and courtyards to agriculture. The tractor is engaged in transportation, plowing, sowing and many more activities,” the head of state said. “Belarus boasts the best tractor production traditions in the world. This is one of the world's leading tractor manufacturers”...

Belarus, Russia intend to restart production at Stadler Minsk
Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivak also expressed his opinion on this matter. "I am sure we will continue to use the rolling stock made by this Belarusian company"...

Belarus’ cooperation with African countries described as ‘true partnership’
Belarus supplies mainly agricultural machines to the African market and organizes maintenance, after-sales service and training of specialists...

BelAZ implements import substituting projects with Russian partners
BelAZ uses the loan issued by the Russian Federation mainly to upgrade its own production facilities and increase the output...

Belarus’ export of construction, engineering services up 4.2% since year start
This year, an increase has been registered in export supplies of the following commodity items: tempered glass and glass containers (more than two times), building blocks and bricks (up 48%), sanitary and technical products (up 29%), cement (up 3.3%)...

Ethiopia interested in Belarus’ best practices across various areas
“Aleksandr Rogozhnik invited the Ethiopian tourism industry to take part in tourism exhibitions in Belarus,” the press service said...

Vietnam interested in promoting Belarusian products, services in local market
According to the center, the Vietnamese Enterprises Club agreed to facilitate the promotion of Belarusian products and services in the Vietnamese market, including via local online platforms...

Belarusian Industrial and Innovation Forum kicks off in Minsk
BelPromInnoForum is the largest platform for discussion and demonstration of equipment and technologies for industrial production, innovations, R&D, industrial samples and services. It brings together people, ideas and technologies of related industries...

China’s latest medical technologies on display in Great Stone park near Minsk
More than 30 large companies from friendly China have presented samples of their products...

Belarus hails great potential for industrial cooperation with Zimbabwe
"The African market is one of the priority and promising markets for the Belarusian manufacturing sector. In recent years, Belarus and Zimbabwe have successfully implemented joint projects," Aleksandr Yefimov emphasized....

Belarus seeks closer ties with China in medical cluster
"We offer our Chinese partners to deepen cooperation on joint technological development, more actively create production facilities in medicine, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, and participate in the modernization of Belarusian enterprises using innovations in healthcare," Tatiana Brantsevich said...

BelNPP generates 35bn kWh of electricity
This year the BelNPP two power units have already generated more than 12 billion kWh of electricity, up almost 6% as compared to electricity generation in 2023...

Belarus prioritizes development of cooperation with Zimbabwe
The parties continue joint work to upgrade Zimbabwe's agriculture. Belarus has already supplied more than 2,000 units of agricultural machinery to the country, which has helped the country significantly increase crop yields and, in fact, ensure Zimbabwe’s independence from grain import for the first time...

Trade between Belarus, Russia’s Buryatia up sixfold in five years
"There are quite a lot of points of contact, and not only in the manufacturing sector but also in healthcare. Belarus has good experience, we know what to see, what to learn, and we have our own interesting developments. Oriental medicine is very well-developed in Buryatia," the head of Buryatia said...