Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 7 transactions were registered.  For the foreign currency businessmen from the United Arab Emirates, Serbia and Afghanistan bought metal products, extract of licorice root and dried licorice rhizomes, cotton yarn. The total sum of transactions made up about 4 million 100 thousand US dollars.  For the home market local businessmen purchased cotton fibre for the sum of over 234 thousand manats. / Stat...

Specialists of Lebapnebitgazozleg Department of the State Corporation Turkmengeology successfully completed the drilling of the exploration well at perspective site in Karakum Desert. The production layer lays at 4575 meters depth. However, the drilling personnel continue drilling taking into account the data of the seismic survey. According to the forecast, the lower levels may also have gas deposits.  Specialists of Lebapnebitgazozleg Department make successful exploration of hydrocarbon re...

More than 1,500 tons of reprocessed fiber was produced at the Abadan cotton-spinning factory, which is part of Ashgabat textile complex structure. The manufactury for recycling of the spinning and weaving industries of the branch enterprises was put into operation more than a year ago. In the workshop intalled the equipment of the company "Balkan" (Turkey), capable of processing up to 5000 tons of textile waste product per year.  High-tech equipment allows to turn textile wastes into products...

After considering the results of the conducted audience survey, the Italian TV channel “Rai Tre” named the best travel destinations for 2018. The news agency “ОRIENT.tm” informs that Turkmenistan became the leader of the survey in the nomination "History". It is reported that the views of tourists who visited different parts of the world were studied after numerous television programs on tourism and travel, shot by the channel on the most popular destinations. Remarkably, there are many hi...

an impressive ceremony has been held in front of the Palace of Children and Youth to open a winter holiday season for school-aged children, who then left for one of the most beautiful and scenic places in Turkmenistan, Geokdere, which is home to ten-plus modern health centers.  The area in front of the capital’s Palace of Children and Youth has now transformed into a miniature fairy-tale town with a lavishly decorated New Year tree and one more important symbol of this year’s New Year festivi...

“Building new roads and railways, seaports and bridges, our motherland revives the Great Silk Route in the third millennium” – President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in his New Year speech to the Nation.  We are realizing this concept by not only building big transport infrastructure, routes and transit corridors. Our neutral independent state makes big contribution to the development and consolidation of political, trade and economic, cultural and humanitarian relations in international ar...

As is known, an important aspect of Turkmenistan’s energy strategy is the expansion of the geography of export routes for the supply of Turkmen energy to world markets, including through the creation of a multivariate transport infrastructure. In this area, large investment projects are being implemented, among which the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline (TAPI) occupies a special place. We asked the representative of the State Concern Turkmengaz on the boar...