ANOTHER FREIGHT TRAIN HAS BEEN LAUNCHED ON THE NEW ROUTE FROM CHINA TO IRAN

On Thursday, December 28, 2017, the succeeding test container train was launched from Changsha city - the administrative centre of Hunan Province of China,- via Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Tehran. The route of this container train runs through the main network of Chinese railways, in particular, the Khorgos border crossing, the Altyn koy-Bolashak (Kazakhstan) railway lines, the rail network of Turkmenistan-Serhetiak, Akayla and further to Tehran. The length of the Changsha-Tehran route...

TURKMENAIRLINES HAS OPENED FLIGHT ASHGABAT-YEREVAN-FRANKFURT

Turkmen Airlines has opened the flight Ashgabat-Yerevan-Frankfurt-Yerevan-Ashgabat. This international flight has replenished the schedule of flights of the Service "Türkmenhowaýollary" on the eve of the New Year, becoming a festive gift for lovers of travel and business people. Possibilities of opening direct flights between Ashgabat and Yerevan were discussed at the high level meetings, held in August this year during the official visit of the Esteemed President Gurban...

TAPI Gas Pipeline: From Idea to Reality

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 th...

"Rai Tre" has named Turkmenistan as the best destination for recreation in 2018

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...

Industrial gas flow with daily debit of more than one million cubic meters is received from Minara 3 field in Mary Velayat

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 hydrocarb...

2018: Turkmenistan – the Heart of the Silk Road

“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 relati...

At the first exchange session of 2018 metal products, cotton yarn and licorice were realised

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 mana...

More than 7000 school students to spend winter holidays in Children Recreation Centres of Gokdere

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...

It is exported the most produced part of reprocessed fiber in the country

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 waste...

National Parliament adopts new laws and brings back historical names to some settlements

Regular 26th session of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan of the fifth convocation where number of new laws and bills were adopted took place. Members of the Government, heads of relative ministries and departments, hyakims of Ashgabat and Ahal Velayat, representatives of mass media were invited to participate in the session.  According to the agenda, Draft Law of Turkmenistan on Transport Safety was brought up to the review of the parliamentarians. The participants noted that 2018 would be und...