By Leman Mammadova

Belarus and Azerbaijan are further developing cooperation in machinery equipment that is holding a special place in bilateral economic relations.

The manufacture of Belarusian electrobuses, buses and combine harvesters will be launched in Azerbaijan, Ganja Automobile Plan told Trend.

The agreement was signed during a visit to Belarus by Niyazi Bayramov, Head of Ganja Executive Power, and Khanlar Fatiev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Ganja Automobile Plant.

In particular, the parties signed agreements on beginning the assembly of buses of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), the supply of component electric buses produced by OJSC “Holding management company ”Belkommunmash“” and the components for combines produced at the “Gomselmash” factory.

Gomselmash is one of the largest producers of agricultural equipment and one of the leaders in the world market of combines and other complex agricultural machinery.

JSC Management Company of the holding Belkommunmash was established in 1973 in Minsk. The company is currently engaged in the production of electric buses, trolley buses, tram passenger cars.

Ganja Automobile Plant is the largest assembly plant of Belarusian tractors outside the Eurasian Economic Union. So far, more than 10,000 Belarusian tractors and specialized equipment have been assembled at the Ganja automobile plant over the years.

As reported earlier, an assembly line of Belarusian-Azerbaijani tractors is planned to be launched during the first quarter of 2019 in Turkey. The Minsk Tractor Works (MTW) OJSC signed a new contract with Ganja Automobile Plant in Azerbaijan on September 22, 2017, for a supply of tractors to Azerbaijan along with an additional protocol on jointly entering the Turkish market. Up to 5,000 units of tractors are planned to be manufactured in Turkey. The design capacity that will be implemented during the initial stage will be up to 2,500.

Belarus is interested in the North-South project and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, and Belarus aims to create a railway route Minsk-Baku. Recently, Belarusian Railways and the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC signed an agreement on mutually beneficial cooperation for the interaction of the railways of the two countries to contribute to the development of the International North-South Transport Corridor.

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Belarus exceeded $400 million on 370 commodity items in the ten months of 2018. Belarusian exports to Azerbaijan increased by almost three times, while exports from Azerbaijan increased by 44 percent. Products of the machine engineering industry, petrochemistry, woodworking, pharmaceuticals, military-technical cooperation made up the main Belarusian export items to Azerbaijan. In turn, Azerbaijan mainly export to Belarus petrochemicals, vegetables, fruits and other non-oil products.

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