Belarus, Volgograd region plan to increase trade turnover to $500m – Reuters

The fact is that on the banks of the mythical Volga, the partners of the federated state, observers note, measure the scale of cooperation by leaps and bounds. As the closest points of reference, the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to Russia Dmitry Krutoy told reporters on February 27 after negotiations with the region’s governor Andrey Bocharov, his colleagues set themselves the task of raising the mutual trade level to 0.5 billion dollars, doubling it.Belarusians are also actively involved in the electric transport program in many large cities of the region, informs BELTA . Therefore, during the negotiations, a concession in the supply of trams and trolleybuses was also discussed, especially since the first batch of Belkommunmash trolleybuses has already shown itself well in Volgograd. True, the governor asked to simultaneously create a full-fledged center for the maintenance of electric transport.The head of the diplomatic mission sees the development of gas equipment as another promising topic for cooperation. In the Volgograd region, he explained, a number of sublimated gas projects will be implemented with the participation of Gazprom. The Russian governor has already invited friends from MTZ, MAZ and AMKODOR to participate.And within the framework of the upcoming visit to the Russian region of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, the parties agreed to hold a joint council on industry and energy, to which it is planned to invite the heads of the largest Belarusian companies and Volgograd companies.The parties paid particular attention to logistics, including within the North-South corridor. “The creation of a hub for Belarusian goods that could then be transported to third countries, as well as a number of joint ventures for the same purpose, was also discussed,” the ambassador said.As part of a working trip to the Volgograd region, the agency reports, Dmitry Krutoy visited a number of enterprises of interest to the Belarusian side. In addition, he laid flowers to the eternal flame in the hall of military glory of the memorial complex “To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” on Mamaev Kurgan.