KAZAKHSTAN

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are planning to create a joint venture in the railway sector.

As Trend reports, the presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed their support for the initiative to create this joint venture.

It is assumed that the management of the enterprise will be carried out jointly by the railway administrations of the two countries.

Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili hopes that oil transportation through the Baku-Supsa pipeline will resume in 2024 after regular pumping was suspended in spring 2022, Trend reports referring to Georgian media.

Turkmenistan might export a large volume of energy resources to Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and Kazakhstan, Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at the 15th meeting of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Ashgabat, Trend reports.

The suspension of supplies of Russian oil to the Lukoil refinery in Burgas from March 2024 does not mean the company's losing the opportunity to supply this refinery with raw materials, a source familiar with the matter told Trend.

Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alim Bayel has congratulated Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev on the country's chairmanship of this year's 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), Trend reports, referring to Kazakhstan's embassy in Azerbaijan.

Prospects of „green“ hydrogen production in the countries of Central Asia and the Caspian region will be discussed in Kazakhstan's Astana on September 17, Trend reports via „Globuc International Company“.

Value-added tax (VAT) won't increase in Kazakhstan by order of the head of state, said the country's Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov at the first meeting of the renewed government, Trend reports.

The EU, through its structures, will allocate 10 billion euros for the development of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), European Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis said on January 29 in Brussels at the Global Gateway global investment forum.

Trend reported this on Monday with reference to Dombrovskis’s page on social networks.

The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor) is a green route, Kazakh National Economy Minister Alibek Kuantyrov said during the panel session "A New Dawn for Eurasia" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trend reports.

Vice Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan Satzhan Ablaliyev and Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA Aset Asavbayev have discussed the development of ferry services on the Caspian and Black Seas, Trend reports.

The parties also exchanged views on transportation issues in the field of road transport, including the problem of traffic congestion at the Sarpi and Red Bridge (Georgia) checkpoints.