BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 28. Businessmen from Afghanistan purchased liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Turkmen production during trading on March 20 at the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan, Trend reports with reference to the exchange.
Representatives of the business community from Afghanistan purchased 8,500 tons of LNG on the exchange at a price of $310 per ton. The total amount of the transactions was $2.6 million.
At the same time, according to the exchange, on March 18, businessmen from Türkiye purchased 418 tons of various types of cotton yarn in the amount of $1 million.
Meanwhile, in Turkmenistan as a whole, the plan for the extraction of natural and associated gas was exceeded by 12.7 percent in 2022, and the plan for the production of liquefied gas - by 5.1 percent.
The State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan was established on July 29, 1994. It is the most important body of state regulation of export-import operations.