By Leman Mammadova

Belarus and Azerbaijan has already launched the cooperation in electrobus supply.

Belarusian OJSC “Holding management company ”Belkommunmash“” will supply four electrobuses to Azerbaijan, Trend reports referring to Belarusian media.

The electrobuses will go for a test drive on specially organized routes in Ganja city of Azerbaijan.

"A joint assembly production will be set up at the Ganja Automobile Plant in the future. A cooperation agreement was signed during a visit of the Azerbaijani delegation headed by the Ganja Executive Power to the Minsk enterprise," the media reports.

Earlier, the Ganja Automobile Plant signed an agreement with the Belarusian company OJSC “Holding management company "Belkommunmash” for the supply of component electric buses to and their assembly in Azerbaijan.

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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