Baku, Azerbaijan, June 5
Trend:
Foreign entrepreneurs are interested in creating logistics hub in Kazakhstan, Trend reports with reference to Kazakh Invest national company.
A delegation from Kazakhstan participated in 25th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Japan, which is the annual economic event held by Nikkei (Financial Times) every year since 1995. As reported, during the event, the Kazakh delegation consisting of Ambassadors-at-Large Yerlan Khairov and Batyrkhan Kurmanseyit as well as representatives of Kazakh Invest company conducted a series of meetings with leading technology companies and organisations of Japan.
During the meeting with Toyota Tsusho, the parties discussed cooperation opportunities in the field of agribusiness and development of projects with the prospects of exporting products to Japan.
The representatives of Kazakh Invest informed investors from the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation JOGMEC about the existing projects in the field of rare-earth metals extraction including nickel and cobalt. Investors, in turn, expressed interest in implementing projects for the extraction of uranium and tungsten.
Following the discussions with the transnational company Sojitz, which has over 50 years of experience in transportation industry around the world, the company representatives expressed their intention to implement a project for the production of containers and sleepers for railways, as well as for the creation of a logistics hub in Kazakhstan. They were also interested in potential opportunities in agribusiness, petrochemistry and ICT.