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Belarus and Iran are expanding cooperation in the transportation sector. This matter was discussed at the meeting between Belarus' Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Avramenko and Iran's Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade of Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi.

Negotiations with Egypt on opening regular flights between Cairo and Minsk are in the active phase. In November 2022, the Aviation Department issued accreditation to Iran's Mahan Air to operate flights between Minsk and Tehran.

One of the important topics discussed at the meeting was the possibility of involving the enterprises of the region in shipbuilding and the use of port infrastructure for Belarus. A working group has been set up to study all the aspects of the matters.

The Belarus president's work schedule has always been full of events. Aleksandr Lukashenko holds conferences and working meetings, regularly visits the regions, goes on foreign trips and welcomes foreign guests… All of it and much more than that can be found in the first episode of BelTA's special project President's Week.

Aleksei Avramenko said: “We are increasing freight shipments to China in these conditions. Last year we sent 988 container trains to China. For instance, over 1 million tonnes of potash fertilizers was transported. Sawn timber, milk powder, and a number of other cargoes were also transported."

According to Aleksei Avramenko, in 2022 Belarus and Russia signed two basic agreements on transshipping oil products and foreign trade cargoes. Those are primarily potash fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizers, metallurgy products, and woodworking goods.

To date, Belarus has already used 19 ports of the Russian Federation for transshipment of its export cargoes – as Transport and Communications...

Nikolai Snopkov explained that once the transshipment of Belarusian cargoes via Baltic sea ports became impossible due to unfriendly actions of a number of countries, Russian port infrastructure came to the forefront for Belarus.

An intergovernmental agreement on transit of Belarusian goods through the territory of the Russian Federation was signed by the Belarusian...

According to the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the successful implementation of the first agreement, new efficient routes and the growing capacity of the Russian port infrastructure paved the way for a new intergovernmental agreement between the transport ministries of the two countries.