Andrei Kravchenko from Gomel won a heptathlon silver at the World Indoor championships held in Valencia on March 7-9. He scored a total of 6,234 points, which is a national record of Belarus. Head coach of the Belarusian national team Anatoly Baduyev took note of the good results of Andrei Kravchenko who is expected to get into his best sports shape by the Olympic Games in Beijing. As of today Belarusian athletes have won 69 Olympic licenses.

A delegation of the Latvian businessmen will pay a visit to Belarus on March 10-13, BelTA learnt from the Latvian Embassy in Belarus. The delegation will include representatives of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and also ten companies the activity of which is connected with transport, logistics, timber industry, organization of sports and entertaining events. The Latvian businessmen are expected to pay visits to Minsk and Gomel. They will have talks with leadership of some...

In January-February 2008, production corporation Gomselmash exported products at the amount of $48, 3 million or 8 times up on the same period last year, BelTA learnt from director of the marketing centre of the company Vladimir Frolov. According to him, daily the company supplies about 10 agricultural machines to their foreign trade partners. The Russian Federation and Ukraine are the main trade partners of Gomselmash. The contracts concluded with economic entities of these countries...

In 2007, OAO Mozyrsol exported table salt at the amount of $24, 5 million. In 2008, the company intends to increase the export of salt by 15% in comparable prices. At present, OAO Mozyrsol exports around 85% of the total production. It supplies its product to 17 countries worldwide. About a half of the export goes to Russia. Since January 1 this year, the company has supplied the salt to the Russian Federation through the Belarusian Food Company. The table salt produced by OAO Mozyrsol...

Production corporation Gomselmash will take part in the traditional agricultural exhibition EXPOAGRO 2008 which will be held in the Argentinean province of Santa-Fe on March 5-8. Belarusian producers of agricultural machinery will display its latest fodder choppers KBK-800E. Specialists of the Gomselmash branch in Argentina Trade House Polesje, which was set up a year ago, are preparing the farm machinery for the exhibition. Gomselmash intends to expand its presence in Latin America. At...

On February 27, a team of the Korean businessmen (representatives of 12 various companies) arrived in Gomel. The main goal of the visit is to establish contacts and set up joint ventures in the Belarusian region. A contact and cooperation exchange has become the main event of the programme. More than 80 companies and organizations of the Gomel oblast took part in negotiations with representatives of the Korean business. The sides discussed an opportunity to set up a network to sell...

On February 27, a team of Korean businessmen will pay a visit to the Gomel oblast of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. Representatives of more than 10 companies which are interested in cooperation with Belarusian companies are expected to arrive in Gomel. These are leaders and managers of the companies which produce construction materials, heating equipment, industrial electric batteries, uninterruptible power supplies, plumbing equipment...

OAO Gomelsteklo will supply LG Corporation with glass shelves for refrigerators. The Belarusian tempered glass has been successfully tested, BelTA learnt from Dmitry Sviridov, the head of the company’s marketing department. According to him, in March Gomelsteklo will supply the company with 5 thousand cubic meters of glass shelves and with 12 thousand cubic meters in April. That is enough to equip 100% of monthly production of LG refrigerators manufactured in Russia. Indesit Company is...

Belarus jointly with the border regions of Russia and Ukraine plans to create a unique tourist route Slavonic Ring in the Gomel oblast, BelTA learnt from Alexander Yakobson, the Chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee. In his words, the route will cover the Gomel, Bryansk and Chernigov oblasts. At one trip tourists will be able to get familiar with the historical and cultural heritage of the three Eastern Slavonic nations: Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians. The Bryansk oblast...

The latest know-hows were used to set up a syringe manufacturing facility in Gomel, Karl Heinz, a representative of the German Transcoject, the general supplier of the equipment, said at an opening ceremony of the injection syringe manufacturing facility at Medplast company. The equipment was installed by German and Belarusian specialists. The quality of products being high, the production capacity will be 20% higher than it was originally planned. The German representative noted that this...