Belarusian Steel Works (BSW) has won a tender for the supply of steel fiber for the construction of a tunnel between Austria and Italy, Director General of Belarusian Steel Works Nikolai Andrianov told a press conference on July 16. “Our joint venture in Austria has won a tender for the supply of fiber for the construction of a tunnel between Austria and Italy,” he said. The length of the tunnel will make up 57km, the cost of the project – ?17bln. “The construction has not been...

In H1 2008 the Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) posted the sales of $1 billion 26 million. 90% of the output was exported, BMZ director general Nikolai Andrianov told a press conference on July 16. According to him, the sales are quite high comparing to $1 billion in the whole 2006. This year the sales will hit $2 billion. “To double sales in two years is impressive progress,” he said. Nikolai Andrianov also informed that the manufacture per one worker at BMZ accounted for...

Candidates from the five political parties have been included in the district election commissions for Gomel oblast on the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the fourth convocation, BelTA learnt from the organization and personnel department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. In the region some 221 people will be engaged in the work of the 17 district election commissions. Partaking in their nomination were labour collectives, parties, public...

The international research expedition Pripyat 2008 is being held in the Gomel oblast now. It will be running through the end of the week. As BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, the main goal of the expedition is the further research of the military way of the Pinsk Military Fleet which heroically fought in Belarus in 1941 and the Dnepr Fleet which liberated Belarus in 1944. Taking part in the expedition are local researchers and representatives of...

The Mozyr Circus Studio Arena has won the Grand Prix of the international contest of children and youth’s circus studios “Country of Miracles” in Krasnoyarsk (Russian Federation). As BelTA learnt from art leader of the Mozyr Studio Arena Boris Kuznetsov, air gymnasts Nikita Nagornov and Stas Plotnikov have won the victory of the event. The international jury panel marked the good performance of the Mozyr circus performers. Contest “Country of Miracles” gathered around 200...

A total of 1.8 million square meters of housing will be built in Gomel in 2008-2012. This target is envisaged in the housing construction programme approved by the Gomel Council of deputies. The construction of housing in Gomel will be increased from 230,000 square meters in 2008 to 500,000 square meters in 2012, which will help reduce the time on the waiting lists down to 6 or 7 years. The construction industry modernisation programme and building up the capacities of the design...

The trading house which will sell Belarusian goods is expected to set up in the Moldovan town of Chadyr-Lunga, BelTA learnt from Igor Milidovich, the commercial counselor of the Belarusian Embassy in Moldova. The Belarusian and Moldovan sides had talks on this issue during the interregional universal exhibition and fair Chadyr-Expo-2008. A delegation from the Gomel oblast of Belarus participated in the forum. The trading house is expected to present various Belarusian goods such as...

In January-May 2008, Production Association Gomselmash increased its exports 4.5 times to reach $147.8 million from the same period of 2007, BelTA learnt from the enterprise. The exports accounted for 60% of the company’s total sales. The major importer of Gomselmash agricultural machines is Russia, namely Altai and Krasnodar krai, Kursk and Smolensk regions and Republic of Tatarstan (the total of 45 regions). In Q1 2008, the exports to Russia accounted for 76.5% of the total exports to...

Manufacturing Corporation Belorusneft is successfully expanding its presence on the Russian market and the amount of services relating to major overhaul of oil wells in Western Siberia. In July the number of the company’s teams, which offer these services in the Yamalo-Nenets District will increase from six to ten, the company’s press service told BelTA. The increase is directly attributed to tendencies of the oil service market of the Russian Federation, where the demand for companies...

Cross border cooperation of Belarus and Ukraine shows a good outlook for the further development. The matter was touched upon at a meeting between the heads of the border regions of the Gomel, Brest, Kiev, Zhitomir, Volynsk, Rovno and Chernigov oblasts with the participation of the heads of the offices of the Belarusian and Ukrainian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Chernigov (Ukraine) on June 12, BelTA learnt from the information department of the Chernigov oblast executive committee....