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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with executives of Ajlan & Brothers Holding Group. During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of mutual cooperation between Ajlan & Bros. and major companies of Tatarstan.
The meeting was also attended by Director General of Tatspirtprom Ruslan Maksudov, his First Deputy Rinel Nuretdinov, First Deputy Director for Production and Sales at Tatneft-Neftekhim Aleksey Sorokazherdiev, Director of the KAMAZ Foreign Trade Company’s Office in the UAE Musa Gilyazov, Head of the Food Market Development Dept. at the Ministry of Agriculture and Foods of Tatarstan Dmitry Yashin, and Head of Agricultural Exports Project Development at RACIN Askar Kamaleev.
Ajlan & Bros. is a Saudi company, one of the leading international corporations operating in the field of manufacturing classic menswear in the KSA and Gulf Area. Company employs more than 9000 workers in more than 10 countries. The company manufactures most of its products in its own factories, which are later sold to wholesalers and retailers in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait. Since its establishment in 1979, Ajlan & Brothers Holding Group created 45 branches and 200 wholesale points in Saudi Arabia and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting with delegation of the Turkey-headquartered KOLIN Inşaat. The meeting was held by Deputy Minister German Lerner.
“In Kazan, a lot of buildings were built by Turkish investors. Turkey is among Top 5 investor countries in Tatarstan. We are very sensitive to Tatarstan-Turkey relations and are open to new projects”, said German Lerner, welcoming the guests. He also spoke about the implementation of major investment projects and about the investment potential in Tatarstan in general.
“Despite the crisis that we are facing now in relations between Russia and Turkey, Tatarstan always remains the place where Turkish companies and workers are under certain protection and Tatarstan is a special place for us where we want to come and where we want to work,” said Akat Selchuk, Chairman of ADCO Board, the official representative office of KOLIN Inşaat Holding in the Russian Federation.
KOLIN Inşaat is a holding company that is part of the KOLIN Group. Their main activities are infrastructure construction and energy projects. For 9 years, KOLIN has been on the list of Top 250 Global Contractors. The annual turnover of KOLIN Inşaat is $2 billion.
Our task is to ensure the republic’s gross regional product (GRP) in the amount at least RUB 5 trillion by 2030. This was announced today at the final Collegium of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan by President Rustam Minnikhanov.
The main report entitled “Results of Industrial and Consumer Market Development in Tatarstan in 2019, Tasks for 2020 and Prospects until 2024. National Projects in Industry” was delivered by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.
During his speech, the Tatarstan President emphasised that all 40 republic’s programmes were implemented in the republic in 2019. Own budget revenues of Tatarstan, according to President Minnikhanov, amounted to almost RUB 300 billion. This is a big figure, he stressed, but there is serious potential for growth.
At the today’s Collegium of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov recalled that the country’s leadership has been able to take unprecedented steps towards reducing the debt burden of defence industry.
Speaking about the economic development of Tatarstan in 2019, Yuri Borisov stressed that the industrial production output in the region reached RUB 2.8 trillion.
He also said that our manufacturing industry would have an opportunity to develop by only relying on own domestic producers, on domestic markets. Serious reserves for the growth of the Russian economy are laid in national projects, he noted.
Last year, the Tatarstan-Serbian trade turnover grew almost 2 times exceeding $100 million. This was announced today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic. The meeting was held in the Kazan Kremlin.
The main purpose of the Serbian Foreign Minister’s visit to Kazan was to participate in the plenary session of the Intergovernmental Russian-Serbian Committee on Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that Tatarstan pays great attention to expanding business ties with Serbian companies. The republic supplies to Serbia rubber, rubber products, engineering products, plastics, petrochemicals. At the same time, Tatarstan imports various types of equipment, metal products, and vehicles for land transport. President of Tatarstan expressed confidence that $100 million turnover is far from the limit. There is great potential for developing ties in such areas as oil refining and petrochemicals, energy, engineering, automotive and component manufacturing, IT and other high technologies, medicine and pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, etc.
Minister Dacic thanked the republic’s officials for the high level of organising the visit of the Serbian delegation, as well as for creating all necessary conditions for holding a Russian-Serbian Intergovernmental Committee meeting.
On March 5, the Lenin Cultural and Leisure Centre saw the expanded Collegium meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan under the title of “Results of Industrial and Consumer Market Development in Tatarstan in 2019, Tasks for 2020 and Prospects until 2024. National Projects in Industry”.
The industrial production volume in 2019 amounted to RUB 2,877 billion, the industrial production index constituted 101%. The retail turnover was RUB 952.7 billion. The number of workers involved in industry and trade totalled 481,000.
The priority tasks in 2019 were the implementation of national projects: “Increasing Labour Productivity”, “Digital Economy”, “International Cooperation and Exports”.
In general, 2020 poses many challenges. These are national projects, industrial safety, R&D. An equally important task is the interaction of enterprises with large holdings. But the main thing is to ensure economic growth by removing bottlenecks.
An exhibition of republic’s enterprises was also organised as part of the final Collegium of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan. This exhibition was visited by high-ranking guests, including Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman of the Tatarstan State Council Farit Mukhametshin, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.
Today in the course of his visit, Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation Yuri Borisov, together with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, visited the Kazan CHPP-2 (branch of Tatenergo Joint Stock Company), and the Gorbunov Kazan Aircraft Plant (Branch of Tupolev Corporation).
Kazan CHPP-2 is a universal fuel station: it is the only pulverised coal station in Tatenergo.
It provides fuel and electricity to the northern district of the city and is located in the very centre of electric and thermal loads. The largest consumers of the CHPP include the Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Production Association, the Kazan Helicopters, the Tasma Research and Production Enterprise, the Kazan Silicate Wall Materials Plant, and Kazanorgsintez.
In 2019, Kazan CHPP-2 generated 2,132.5 million kWh of electricity, which constitutes 12.7 percent of the Tatenergo’s total generation. Heat energy supply was 1,851,100 Gcal, or 19.6 percent of the Tatenergo output.
On March 5, 2020 at 14.00, the Lenin Cultural and Leisure Centre (2a, Kopylov St., Kazan) will host a Final Collegium’s meeting of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade on the topic: “Results of 2019. First Year of National Projects Implementation. Tasks for 2020 and Prospects until 2024”.
The event is planned to be attended by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Yury Borisov, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, members of the Tatarstan Government, top executives of companies, representatives of federal and republic’s ministries, agencies, and organisations.
Before the meeting, an exhibition of Tatarstan companies will showcase the results of implementing the national projects.
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Contact persons from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan:
Head of the General Dept. Lilia Kadyrova, Tel.: +7 (843) 210-05-82;
Leading Expert at the General Dept. Anna Grachyova, Tel.: +7 (843) 210-05-85.
For over 20 years, the city of Kazan has been hosting the Tatarstan International Forum for Energy & Resource Efficiency and Ecology (TEF’2020) composed, inter alia, of the 21st International Specialised Exhibition “Energy. Resource Saving”, and the 15th Specialised Exhibition “Environment Technology and Equipment for the 21st Century”.
The TEF is highly appreciated by expert community, annually confirming its high profile as a demonstration platform for fruitful business meetings, company presentations, discussions with government representatives and industry partners on topical issues of energy efficiency and innovative energy saving methods. The Forum featured the participation of republic’s top officials, representatives of federal and regional authorities, VIP guests from Russian regions and foreign countries.
The TEF will discuss urgent issues in the field of energy efficiency, including developments in the natural gas fuel market, the use of alternative energy sources, the digitalisation of production, and will showcase present-day energy efficient technology and innovative energy saving approaches.
At the Forum’s official website (http://tef.tatar/), one can find the REGISTRATION section and the PROGRAMME section with speakers, extracts, and key questions.
On February 27, the Zelenodolsk Shipyard hosted an expanded meeting of the interagency working group on expanding the use of gas motor fuels in Tatarstan (compressed and liquefied natural gas) with the participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. From the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the meeting was attended by Deputy Minister Ildar Mingaleyev.
The participants to the meeting discussed the development of the gas engine fuel market in the Russian Federation, the current state and development plans of the gas engine fuel market in Tatarstan, as well as the prospects for the development of liquefied natural gas in river and road transport.
Tatarstan is a pilot region for introducing the technologies and developing the markets of compressed natural and liquefied gas.
In 2019, an Agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on construction of a natural gas liquefaction complex and the network of cryogenic filling stations in Tatarstan. In October 2019, a roadmap was signed in Innopolis for the creation of the country’s first river ship running on liquefied natural gas, and today the Zelenodolsk Shipyard held a keel-laying ceremony of this vessel, the Chaika river recreational ship of project 03622 with LNG-powered engines.
Based on information by the Tatarstan Presidential Press Service
On February 27, the Zelenodolsk Shipyard (part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation) saw a keel-laying ceremony of the LNG-powered Chaika passenger river ship with the participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Ildar Mingaleyev, Member of Gazprom Management Board Vyacheslav Mikhalenko, Director of the Department of State Policy for Maritime and River Transport at the Russian Ministry of Transport Yuri Kostin, Head of Zelenodolsk Executive Committee Mikhail Afanasyev, etc.
Tatarstan has become one of the first regions where, jointly with Gazprom subsidiaries, systemic work is underway to expand the use of natural gas as a motor fuel in various modes of transport and in various industries. Switching over to LNG would allow operating companies to reduce their inland water transport costs.
The Chaika passenger river ship (with a capacity of 150-170 passengers) was designed by the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau as a single-hull steel motor boat with the engine room aft and the bridge in the fore part. The ship is assumed to make pleasure trips and sightseeing voyages along inland waterways.
Based on information by the Tatarstan Presidential Press Service