This fortnight the joint stock company Mozyrsol (Gomel oblast) has been daily exporting about 350 tons of white salt to Russia, what exceeds the volumes envisaged by the February contracts two times. The supplies have increased due to the enormous demand for salt in the central oblasts of the Russian Federation, BelTA was informed by Mozyrol director Mikhail Litvin. According to him, the production facilities of the company have been completely utilized since the middle of 2005, this is why...

This year 240 agro-towns will be set up in Belarus or 100 agro-towns more than in 2005, prime minister of this republic Sergei Sidorskiy told reporters today in the course of his working visit to Gomel oblast. Intensification of the work on implementing the village revival program will task the government and local authorities with additional assignments. Nevertheless, the tasks set by the head of state will be undoubtedly fulfilled, the prime minister noted. At the same time, special...

In 2005 the foreign trade of Gomel oblast made USD 5,04 billion and grew by 12.4 per cent against 2004. As BelTA was informed in the foreign economic department of the Gomel oblast executive committee, Gomel oblast achieved such high results for the first time. The foreign trade turnover grew first of all due to an increase of exports – 26.5 per cent (USD3,43 billion). Imports fell by 10 per cent in 2005. As a result, for the first time in its history the oblast had trade surplus of USD...

In January 2006 milk production in Gomel oblast made 37,3 thousand ton and grew by 13 per cent against the same period of 2005, a BelTA correspondent was told by head of the cattle breeding and pedigree stock department of the Gomel oblast executive committee Alexander Lazuta. The gross milk yield grew first of all due to the increase in productivity of milk cows. The average yield of milk made 225 kilos per cow or 33 kilos more than in January 2005. According to Alexander Lazuta, all...

Resident companies of the free economic zone Gomel-Raton attracted USD 28.7 million of investments in 2005, including USD 10.5 million of foreign investments, FEZ administration representatives told BelTA. Since the FEZ foundation it has attracted USD 102.9 million of investments. According to the source, in 2005 fixed-capital investments totalled Br 40.8 billion (an equivalent of USD 18.9 million). In view of the money spent by the central state budget to accomplish the zone...

The construction of the first Gomel hypermarket will begin in March 2006, representatives of the city hall's capital construction department told BelTA. The hypermarket will be situated in Rechitskoye Shosse Street in Sovetskiy district. Its area will total 8,000 square meters. According to construction regulations, the construction should be completed within eight months. The construction will be carried out and funded by a foreign private company, which is completing works at a similar...

Development of economic contacts at the regional level has been considered today by chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee Alexander Yakobson and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Republic of Belarus Rajendra Kumar Tyagi who is on a working visit to Gomel. In particular, Alexander Yakobson has offered to set up a joint venture in the sphere of pharmacology in the free economic zone Gomel-Raton. The proposal has been welcomed. In turn, the diplomat has...

Specialists of national unitary enterprise Belsudoproyekt (Gomel) came up with a project to build the first ever floating Belarusian hotel for tourists, enterprise director Georgiy Polischuk told BelTA. The initial hotel design developed by Minsk architects looked as a European cruise ship. However, the project customer – the Transport and Communication Ministry --- okayed another variant. The vessel will look like a Russian bark decorated to the tune of ancient Slavonic and Varangian...

Specialists of national unitary enterprise Belsudoproyekt (Gomel) came up with a project to build the first ever floating Belarusian hotel for tourists, enterprise director Georgiy Polischuk told BelTA. The initial hotel design developed by Minsk architects looked as a European cruise ship. However, the project customer – the Transport and Communication Ministry --- okayed another variant. The vessel will look like a Russian bark decorated to the tune of ancient Slavonic and Varangian...

In 2005 resident companies of free economic zone Gomel-Raton implemented 32 import-replacing projects. They invested Br 92.3 billion of their own money and loans in the projects, the FEZ administration told BelTA. At present FEZ Gomel-Raton produces around 35 kinds of goods, which are not produced in Belarus anywhere. In 2005 the State Import Replacement Programme was expanded with 34 such products as stated by investment projects of 17 FEZ companies. The source informed, the number of...