The Panama Canal could further reduce the maximum number of authorized daily vessel transits if this year’s drought continues, the waterway’s administrator said on Tuesday. A backlog of ships is waiting to pass through the trans-oceanic canal, which handles an estimated 5% of world trade. It began restricting vessel draft and daily passage authorizations this…
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The delegation of Uzbekistan headed by the Chairperson of the Senate of Oliy Majlis Tanzila Narbayeva is in the Republic of Belarus on an official visit. Yesterday, within the framework of the visit, the first business forum of business circles and women entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan and Belarus was held in Minsk. Photo: senat.uz The event…
On August 9, Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin. Photo: Presidential press service During the talks, the parties discussed the issues of further strengthening the Uzbek-Russian relations of strategic partnership and alliance. Particular attention was paid to boosting trade and economic cooperation and continuing active humanitarian exchange. The leaders of the two countries also…
The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) has extended $20 million long-term loan to Dhaka RAD Elevated Expressway Company Limited (DREECL), an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) formed to implement a PPP project, says a press release. The project is designed to improve Hatirjheel (Rampura Bridge)-Shekherjaiga-Amulia-Demra Road (with link to Tarabo and Chittagong Road). A loan agreement…
Non-basmati white rice, which India has banned for export, is mainly purchased by Senegal, Benin, Togo, Bangladesh, and Cote d’Ivoire. Labourers unload rice bags from a supply truck at India’s main rice port at Kakinada Anchorage in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, on 2 September 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS Indian rice exporters have been…