Saturday, 21, December, 2024

Business

On February 9, the Ministry of Transport held a meeting with representatives of Iranian Aseman Airlines. The talks were held with the Deputy Chairman for Commercial Affairs A.Asad, as well as Executive Director of Persian Gulf travel firm M.Rahmanifar. The sides discussed issues of charter and regular flights between Uzbekistan and Iran, the ministry's press service said.

Uzbekistan exported 7.1 thousand tons of lemons worth US$ 8.6 million in 2020, the State Statistics Committee said in a report.

A factory for the manufacture of modernist IKEA furniture could be launched in Chirchik city, Tashkent province. This became known during the presentation of investment projects to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday.

Spotify has been registered as a taxpayer in Uzbekistan, the State Tax Committee said. Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, launched in October 2008. It is available in nearly 120 countries.

The Anti-Corruption Agency has studied letters from business owners and users of social networks about violations of the law in the process of privatization of Coca-Cola Ichimligi Uzbekiston, Ltd. We are talking about a call for bids for the sale of 57.118% of the government’s stake in the largest producer of soft drinks in Uzbekistan.

The draft State Program of 2021 proposed to extend the reliefs provided to businesses in the context of the coronavirus pandemic until December 31, 2021.

On January 16, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov helh online negotiations with the Minister of Investments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Khalid Al-Falih, the Uzbek Ministry said.

Carrefour will open two more supermarkets in Tashkent in March-April. They will be located in the Samarqand Darvoza and Compass malls, Carrefour Uzbekistan reported. The first Carrefour supermarket was opened in Tahskent city at the end of December on Karatash street.

At a roundtable in Tashkent on Friday Uzeltekhsanoat association’s first deputy chairman, Mansur Khashimov offered the government’s stake in JSC FOTON for sale to Russian investors.

The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Authority, Rosselkhoznadzor will ban the import of tomato and pepper fruits from Kashkadarya province of Uzbekistan fom December 11 "in order to preserve phytosanitary well-being," the authority said in a statement.

The Uzbek authorities proposed to Russian investors to set up an immunobiological vaccines unit, including against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a pharmaceutical cluster in Tashkent.

Uzautosanoat is in talks with the British Bentley to produce new electric cars from 2021, Tez News said. As it became known, initially it is planned to launch two models of hybrid cars for the Uzbek market, while by 2025, the models could be brought to six hybrid electric cars.

Reliefs and waivers provided for Uzbek hotels will be extended until the end of 2021. This decision was made on December 1 at the meeting between the Deputy PM/Chairman of the Tourism Development Committee Aziz Abdukhakimov with the management and members of the Association of Hoteliers of Uzbekistan, general managers and owners of the largest hotels in Tashkent held at the Hilton Hotel.

The Tashkent’s Sergeli car market is expected to be fully privatized, the State Assets Management Agency (SAMA). According to the financial statements, Iste'molda Bo'lgan Transport Vositalari Va Ehtiyot Qismlar Sergeli Bozori LLC, which controls the market, is 100% state-owned, and is profitable.

LUKOIL has resumed gas production in Uzbekistan and nearly elevated production to the design rate, the company Vice-President for finance Pavel Zhdanov said.

Turnkey project specialist Horn Glass Industries is supplying a 250 tons per day float glass plant for the Zarafshon Oyna company in Zarafshan, Uzbekistan.

Today a meeting with press was held at the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications.

1,237 foreign-invested enterprises were registered in Uzbekistan in January-September 2020, bringing their total to 11,900, of which 11,300 are active.

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan businesses signed US$50 million worth of deals at the Investment Forum held in Dushanbe. The Forum was part of the Uzbek-Tajik Intergovernmental Commission meeting on Trade and Economic Cooperation and was attended by more than 300 people from both sides, including senior officials of government bodies, state companies and organizations, as well as representatives of the private sector, Asia-Plus said.

World renowned Nike and Adidas are planning to open sport shoes production units in Uzbekistan, Fakhriddin Boboev, chairman of Uzcharmsanoat association, said.