BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 27
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Ukraine plans to buy 1,000-2,000 tons of Turkmen bitumen this month, Trend reports with reference to Business Turkmenistan information portal.
The Cantarell Ukraine company imported 600 tons of Turkmen bitumen to the Ukrainian market in mid-May of 2021.
Until now, the main buyer of Turkmen bitumen was Uzbekistan, the monthly volume of purchases of which is 2-3 thousand tons.
As earlier the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine told Trend, Ukraine and Turkmenistan are ready to sign a number of documents.
An important task of the parties is to determine the key areas of cooperation, joint initiatives, including the format of participation of the Ukrainian side in the context of the creation of a logistics hub in Turkmenistan, and so on.
The report notes that Ukraine considers Turkmenistan as one of the key partners in Central Asia.
"According to еhe results of 2020 the volume of bilateral trade in goods was $85.5 million, export amounted to $56.1 million (an increase of 2 percent), import – $29.4 million," the ministry said.
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