The Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan announced its participation in the German Society for International Cooperation’s (GIZ) “Trade Facilitation in Central Asia” (TFCA) project. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 11 March 2024, by Minister B. Gochmollaev and GIZ Director for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan Joachim Fritz. German Ambassador […]
German Society for International Cooperation GIZ will launch a new stage of the trade facilitation project in Central Asia
The 10th regional meeting of the National Committees for Trade Facilitation of Central Asian countries started in Tashkent on 7 November, the Uzbek news portal Uzdaily.uz reports. The two-day meeting was organized by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (German Society for International Cooperation) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation […]
IRU: The growing need for trade facilitation across Central Asia
Government and business in Central Asia can work together to streamline border crossings and better manage growing trade flows with tried-and-tested UN instruments and digitalisation. Central Asia sits at the heart of east-west connectivity. Traffic pressure on evolving routes and resulting border crossing challenges are hampering the flow of goods, leading to long border queues […]
A regional meeting on facilitating cross-border trade in Central Asia was held in Tashkent
On Tuesday, Tashkent hosted the 9th regional meeting of the National Committees for Trade Facilitation in Central Asia within the framework of the project “Trade Facilitation in Central Asia”, implemented by the German Society for International Cooperation GIZ GmbH. Representatives of the public and private sectors from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, international experts […]