Business
17 January 2006 [11:36]
Germany’s Select Energy Company has purchased this year’s first portion of oil to be exported by SOCAR from the Batumi port of Georgia in February.
17 January 2006 [06:00]
The Azerphone Joint Enterprise (JE) which signed a contract with the Ministry of Communication and Information technologies for the purpose of providing cellular communication services as a new GSM operator in Azerbaijan intends to establish its network in Baku (in whole Absheron), Ganja, Mingechevir, Ali Bayramli and Guba cities till September, 2006.
17 January 2006 [05:54]
The Ministry of Taxes will complete testing of the Automated Taxes Information System (ATIS) till the end of January.
17 January 2006 [05:46]
The U.S. Stone Mount Company bought participation share of AtaHolding in the AtaAudit Company included in the structure of the holding.
17 January 2006 [05:42]
Ramiz Hasanov, the lawyer of Ibrahim Mammadov, the founder of the “Azpetrol Oil Company” Limited Liability Company (LLC) held a press-conference today.
17 January 2006 [05:36]
The Baku Steel Company has stopped its activity from January 16 because of lack of raw materials.
17 January 2006 [05:29]
The AtaInsurance Company intends to increase its ownership capital 2 times to the amount $2 million till the end of the current year.
17 January 2006 [05:26]
The “Raiffeisen Zentralbank ?sterreich Aktiengesellschaft” and “Raiffeisenbank Austria” Banks adopted a decision to grant $5 million of credit to the “International Bank of Azerbaijan-Moscow”.
17 January 2006 [05:19]
The Bank Standard Commercial Bank has started implementation of the “Bon Voyage” privileged tourism program prepared along with several travel agencies of the country from today.
17 January 2006 [05:12]
The Azerbaijan Bank Training Center (ABTC) establishes the first Business Leadership School in Southern Caucasus along with the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
17 January 2006 [04:57]
An auction on placement of T-bills with the state registration number 10200213S of the Ministry of Finance was held in the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) today.
16 January 2006 [17:49]
Bird flu epidemic covered some countries begin adversely affect the local production of poultry in Azerbaijan. Both the purchasing capacity of the population and the production of chicken meat at broiler factories dropped due to spreading of bird flu in some countries.
16 January 2006 [17:39]
?zerbaijan is the second country after Holland where Turkish businessmen seek to invest their capital, willing to save them from the domestic crisis, such data is presented in the annual report of the Ankara Chamber of Industry.
16 January 2006 [16:01]
In 2005 the turnover of the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange (BBVB) comprised 835,116m AZN ($885.6).
16 January 2006 [14:50]
110KV substation Bina up to modern world standards will be put into exploitation in late February.
16 January 2006 [14:18]
A delegation of Azerbaijani businessmen will leave for Iran on 24-27 January to participate in the 4th international exhibition dedicated to marine products and exploration of sea animals.
16 January 2006 [13:56]
From 9 through 13 January URAL (EX-NOVO) average price, sold by Azerbaijan in Novorossiysk port, was $55.30 per barrel or rose $2.43 barrel as compared to the last week (2 - 6 January).
16 January 2006 [13:51]
The State Committee on State Property Management announced in the organization of a next money auction, where 81 joint stock companies (JSCs) will put their shares.
16 January 2006 [10:05]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will temporarily stop selling petrol to abroad.
15 January 2006 [17:32]
15 January 2006 [15:30]
14 January 2006 [21:13]
The Azerbaijani Communications and Information Technologies Ministry commissioned 164,185 telephone number, or 42,611 numbers more as compared 2004.
14 January 2006 [20:38]
President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev visited Lenkoran.
14 January 2006 [13:55]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) welcomes the adjustment of the domestic prices of oil products in Azerbaijan inline with the world prices.
14 January 2006 [03:19]
Next auction on placement of T-bills with the state registration number 10200213S of the Ministry of Finance will be held in the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) on January 16.
14 January 2006 [03:10]
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held a symposium on “Corporate Management: Existing situation, problems and perspectives” dedicated to the Competition for Nationwide Scientific Articles.
14 January 2006 [03:08]
14 January 2006 [03:04]
14 January 2006 [02:49]
The Azerbaijani and Iranian power engineering specialists discussed technical and organizational details of joint projects in their regular meeting held the other day.
14 January 2006 [02:34]
The Azerbaijan Banking Training Centre (ABTC) made a contract with the single regional bank in the country Gyandjabank on assisting in establishing the corporative management system.
14 January 2006 [02:30]
Currency reserves, securities, immovable property and products of production-technical destination amounting to 1,335 milliard manats were realized in 574 auctions held in the stock exchanges acting in the country during the past year and this is 20% more in comparison with 2004.
14 January 2006 [02:28]
PA Government Services Inc. Company holds a tender on administering of the Heating Object project construction of which was completed in Surakhani region and Garachukhur settlement of Baku and providing services on heating, warm and cold water supply of consumers.
14 January 2006 [02:24]
The Mortgage Fund of Azerbaijan (MFA) announced a quotation and proposals questionnaire on internal demands.
14 January 2006 [02:13]
A delegation consisting of local businessmen will visit Oman Sultanate on January 19-22 under organization of the National Confederation of the Entrepreneurs (Employers') Organizations of Azerbaijan (AEC).
14 January 2006 [02:11]
The Mortgage Fund under the National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA) announces vacancies on admission of specialists of various fields.
14 January 2006 [02:08]
13 January 2006 [19:09]
The Initial Tax Criminal Investigation Department under the Tax Ministry set to consideration of 281 criminal cases on illegal entrepreneurship and tax evasion in 2005.
13 January 2006 [16:22]
The budget of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the year of 2006 is planned to be 807842,6 thousand AZN, as informs.
13 January 2006 [15:06]
The Azerbaijani Internet Forum NGO regards change of tariff for local and international calls submitted by the Communications and Information Technologies Ministry to the Tariff Council as inexpedient taking into consideration insolvency of population.
13 January 2006 [14:53]
The Azerbaijani entrepreneurs will participate in the an exhibition of Turkish goods and Turkish week entitled ‘Osman Sultanate I’, to be held in Masqat, capital of Osman Sultanate, from 19 to 22 January.
13 January 2006 [14:42]
Azerbaijani government did not agree with proposal of the World Trade Organization to lift restrictions on foreign capital in the insurance market of the country.
13 January 2006 [11:05]
A new bank to provide all types of financial services, with a charter capital of $5 million, has opened in Azerbaijan.
13 January 2006 [04:43]
The “UniBank” Commercial Bank received the $700 thousand first tranche of the credit granted by the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) for the purpose of developing trade operations.
13 January 2006 [04:41]
Next meeting of the Azerbaijan-Pakistan intergovernmental economic commission will be held in Islamabad in these days.
13 January 2006 [04:35]
Azerbaijan’s new mobile communication operator, Azfon, is about to start the construction of a telephone exchange and transmitters, while eight months later the operator will start providing services to mobile phone users.
13 January 2006 [04:31]
Azerbaijan-Israeli business-forum to be held in Baku and Guba on February 19-21.
13 January 2006 [04:02]
Currency exchange stations acting in the territory of the country will be replaced with exchange bureaus in near future.
13 January 2006 [03:56]
Some Azeri MPs voiced concerns over the government’s unanticipated decision to double retail prices on some oil products to bring them closer to world levels.
12 January 2006 [21:55]
The Azeri Government managed to keep inflation level in one-figure level.
12 January 2006 [10:47]
“Azerbaijan will launch a satellite in the space soon. The new satellite will be orbited together with Azerbaijan, Russia and Georgia.”
12 January 2006 [10:20]
Azerbaijan was honoured with the 123rd place among 161 states on the Index of Economic Freedom calculated by the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal.
12 January 2006 [10:07]
Negotiations on the price of electric energy Azerbaijan sells to Russia will be continued in January. According to the information given from the press-service of “Azerenergy” OJSC based on the vice-president of OJSC Marlen Asgarov, during the year “Azerenergy” purchases approximately 3 billion kWh electric energy from Russia and sells 1 billion kWh to this country.
12 January 2006 [09:10]
“The hearing with FimBank will complete in the Azerbaijan’s favor.”
11 January 2006 [22:59]
Kazakh Prime Minister Danial Ahmetov asserted his government’s intention on joining to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export oil pipeline during the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Artur Rasizade.
06 January 2006 [17:01]
The Tariff Council of Azerbaijan in its Thursday meeting considered an appeal by the enterprises n possible increase of retail prices of oil prices, according to the Tariff Council.
06 January 2006 [12:16]
The necessity of ban on caviar sale and sturgeon fishing will be considered on 15 January during meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
06 January 2006 [12:07]
The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), operated by BP, today announced the start-up of oil production from the West Azeri platform – Azeri Project Phase 2, as part of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field development, in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.
06 January 2006 [11:35]
Azerbaijan provisionally suspended food import from Turkey due to “Bird Flu”.
06 January 2006 [11:30]
The president of the BP-Azerbaijan Company David Woodward was awarded the “Saint Michael and Saint George” order by the Queen II Elizabeth and his name was included in the New Year Honorary list of Great Britain announced on January 1.
06 January 2006 [11:19]
A meeting of the representatives of the railway offices of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia will be held in Baku on January 12-13 for the purpose of determination of the main operator of the container train exploitation project by means of the Poti-Baku-Aktau-Almati route.
06 January 2006 [11:07]
Azerbaijan and Bahrain will develop relationships in all spheres of cooperation.
28 December 2005 [10:13]
The “AzEuroTel” Joint Enterprise (JE) will present its services on rapid Internet access with the speed from 64 Kb to 516 Kb based on the ADSL technology in the unlimited access mode by 1 January.
28 December 2005 [10:06]
After the AN-140-100 airplane taken off from Baku en route to Aktau crashed, the “AzAL” State Concern will return another AN-140-100 airplane purchased from Ukraine back. APA was informed about it by the sources in the “AzAL” State Concern.
28 December 2005 [10:03]
IBA-Moscow, Austrian «Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich Aktiengellschaft» and Moscow branch «Raiffeisenbank Austria» signed credit agreement on December 23, 2005, International Bank of Azerbaijan reports. It is the first deal of IBA-Moscow on attraction of the western banks’ finances in implementation of the projects in Russia.
28 December 2005 [10:01]
“Azerigas” has already given instructions for solution of the technical issues in the field of purchasing gas from Iran.
28 December 2005 [09:57]
Distribution of social insurance certificates to employees will be started by the beginning of the next year.
28 December 2005 [09:38]
“I promised that the young people will be able to obtain preferential credits by February of the next year. Probably there will be no obstacle in its implementation”.
28 December 2005 [09:30]
An airliner AN-140-100, which crashed near Baku on 23 Dec, was insured by insurance company AZAL Sigorta, AZAL state company told Trend.
24 December 2005 [09:30]
The mobile tax inspections conducted by the Ministry of Taxes in the “Azpetrol” Oil Company, “Azpetrol Ltd.”, “Azertrans Ltd.” Limited Liability companies (LLC) on fulfillment of the legislation on taxes and other mandatory payments are continued.
24 December 2005 [09:24]
Purchasing of the stocks amounting to of 25 %+1 thousand manats of the “AzerDemiryolBank” Joint-Stock Bank (JSB) by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has completed.
24 December 2005 [09:21]
According to the order by the Marketing and Economic Operations Department (MEOD) of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), the “Ernst & Young” Company conducted audit of activity of MEOD on 2004.
20 December 2005 [21:48]
A solemn ceremony dedicated to the commencement of the Iranian gas delivery to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) was held in the area of Nakhchivan city gas-exploitation unit on Tuesday.
20 December 2005 [11:01]
The volume of monetary incomes of population at face-value formed 34.4 trillion manats during 11 months of this year.
20 December 2005 [11:00]
The “Transparency International” public organization announced a new rating table on the level of corruption in the world’s countries.
20 December 2005 [10:57]
Court of Economy on arguments due to international deals satisfied the claim raised by Ibrahim Mammadov, former owner of “Azertrans LTD” against Justice Ministry and Dutch “Allied Meridian Oil and Gas Group B.V” company.