Kazakhstan in talks with Abu Dhabi Ports on agricultural exports

CTF Services

07/08/2023 09:18

ASTANA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan is in talks with
Abu Dhabi Ports  ADPORTS.AD  to set up a joint venture that
would help ship Kazakh agricultural exports via Iran and then
Gulf ports, the Central Asian nation's government said on
Monday.
    Kazakhstan, a significant exporter of agricultural
commodities such as grains and oilseeds, wants to ship cargoes
to Iran via the Caspian Sea and have them delivered to Iranian
Gulf ports such as Amirabad and Bandar Abbas and then further to
other destinations in the Gulf, Asia and Africa, it said.
    Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin discussed the
project with Davood Tafti, the chief executive of Simatech
Shipping and Forwarding, which the Kazakh government said was a
subsidiary of AD Ports Group.
    Landlocked Kazakhstan has traditionally exported its grains
and oilseeds mostly to neighbouring Central Asian countries and
China, and also shipped some to Black Sea ports via Russia.

 (Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov, Editing by Louise Heavens)
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