Friday, 19, April, 2024

Business

The initial price of the government’s share in the Uzbekistan Hotel put up for sale was cut by 10% due to lack of bids, the State Assets Management Agency said.

The German GP Günter Papenburg AG and the Uzbek state-owned unitary enterprise Transyulqurilish (owning 70% and 30% of the shares respectively) signed agreement for a joint venture, Papenburg Uzbekistan, for manufacturing of asphalt-concrete mixtures, ready-made concrete products, and performing construction and installation works, with the total authorized capital of 5.7 million euros, the draft government decree said.

A working meeting was held at the Uzbekistan Ministry of Transport with the delegation of the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR, headed by Vice President for Sales Europe-Russia, Jérôme Gabory, the Ministry said.

The fifth meeting of the Uzbek-Turkish Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Uzbekistan-Turkey Business Forum took place on July 22 to 23 in Ankara, the Foreign Ministry said.

Forward-TH Sports plant is being built in the Andijan province, which will produce balls for FIFA and UEFA world tournaments. This was discussed at a meeting between the Uzbek Ambassador in Pakistan, Furkat Sidiqov with the owner of the Forward Group, Khawaja Masood Akhtar Monday, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The first IT park in Uzbekistan will open on July 24, the ITs Development Ministry, which the actual founder of the park said. It will be located in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district, at the Al-Khwarizmi school near Tashkent Inha University.

The first Tatneft gas station was inaugurated in Urtachirchik district of Tashkent province, Uzbekneftegaz said. The multi-fuel station is located on the 5th km of the Tashkent-Nurafshon highway. Аi-95, Аи-92 gasoline and diesel fuel by TANECO - the oil refining complex of the Tatneft group, Uzbekistan-made AI-80 gasoline in, as well as methane will be available at the gas station.

Uzbekistan and Afghanistan signed US$ 68 million worth of 25 export contracts and a memorandum of cooperation to supply oil and gas products to Afghanistan at the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Business Forum and Matchmaking Session on Monday, the Uzbek Ministry for Investment said in a statement.

Sheraton Hotel in Ankara to host Uzbekistan-Turkey Business Forum on July 23. The delegations will be headed by the Uzbek Deputy PM Elyor Ganiev and the Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay.

The Forum of the Provinces of Uzbekistan and Belarus will take place in Minsk in late July - early August as part of the planned visit of the President of Uzbekistan to Belarus, the upper house of parliament said.

An exhibition-presentation took place at the Uzbek Embassy in Muscat, dedicated to the launch of a pilot project for the supply of Uzbek fruits to Oman, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The jeans production company VINTAGE DENIM was inaugurated on June 14 in Olmaliq city of Tashkent province. The 150 thousand jeans and jumpers annual capacity facility has now  100 high-tech sewing machines and employs 250 people.

US$ 320 million worth of 39 deals were signed at the Doing Business in Namangan international investment forum, the Foreign Ministry said.

Contactless, chip, and other smart cards manufacturing factory with German technology is being planned to be built in Uzbekistan.

The Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border trade zone, set up at the Termiz Cargo export center, was inauguaretd today in the Termiz distrcit of the Surkhandarya province. The ceremony took place in the framework of the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan business forum, UzA said.

Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Moon-Jae-in attended the opening of the Uzbekistan-Korea Republic Business Forum. Uzbekistan and South Korea are long-term investment partners. The volume of Korean investments attracted to the Uzbek economy surpassed US$ 7 billion. The Korean National Oil Company, Eximbank, leading, including Kogas, Lotte group, Samsung, Hyundai, Shindong Resources are involved in the priority projects.

Georgian TBC Bank has bought the 51% stake in Inspired LLC, which owns the PayMe digital payment system in Uzbekistan for US$ 5.5 million, the bank said in a statement.

The Uzbek-Czech Business Forum was held in Tashkent as part of the visit of the delegation of the Czech Republic headed by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Marta Novakova to Uzbekistan.

The Uzbek Embassy in Russia, together with the Namangan-based company Dilrabo SDA, are working on the issue of opening a trade house in the Samara province in 2020. the Embassy said.

Leman Capital, a Swiss capital-investment company, received for trust management the shares of three companies, via Integra Eurasia.