Tatyana Gracheva

Mihailo Jovanović, Director of the Office for IT and eGovernment reported that the total export of information and communication technology (ICT) services from Serbia for the period January to November 2024 surpassed the record set during the same period in 2023 and attained €3.712 billion.
Jovanović stated that the total export of ICT services has already exceeded the previous record year, 2023, in January- November 2024, while exports reached €3.44 billion, showing a 20% increase compared to the same period in 2023 and totally attaining €3.712 billion in the first eleven months of 2024. The projection that the figure of €4 billion will have been surpassed by the end of 2024 is supported by this data.
The announcement says that in November 2024 ICT service exports reached €371 million (a 20% increase compared to November 2023). In January – November 2024 the surplus in ICT services attained €2.916 billion.
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First Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko told Robert Maersk Uggla, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Danish transport and logistics company A.P. Moeller-Maersk, at a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, that Ukraine is planning to step up privatization and resume public-private partnerships, including concession projects at several ports.
Ukrainian media cited a statement posted by Sviridenko on a social network after the meeting claiming that the initiatives were aimed at upgrading transport infrastructure and improving trade logistics. The Minister also mentioned the invitation of Maersk to explore and support these options.
According to Sviridenko, investments in Ukraine’s transport sector had also been discussed.
One of the pre-crisis projects was a 35-year concession of Olvia port assets by Qatari QTerminals Olvia in December 2021. They estimated company’s investment at UAH 3.4 billion, and UAH 80 million was also supposed to be invested by the company in the construction of a tunnel under a rail line in the Korabelny district in Nikolayev.
As Former Deputy Prime Minster, Minister for Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov said at Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023 in London, interest in concession projects at the Chernomorsk seaport had been shown by five big companies.
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As Vakhtang Tsintsadze, the Deputy Economy Minister of Georgia, said on Monday, “record” figures in both exports and imports, contributing to similarly high external trade turnover numbers, were achieved in 2024.
He emphasised on the programmes aimed at boosting the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises and fostering local production implemented by the Government.
The growth of economic activity is anticipated, the overall economic landscape is expected to be enhanced and incomes of the population to be improved in the coming years.
According to The National Statistics Office, today the country’s external trade turnover achieved $23.42 billion last year (an eight percent year-on-year increase), exports grew up by 7.8 percent ($6.56 billion), while imports increased by 8.1 percent ($16.86 billion in total).
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A third direct air route to China has been recently added by Serbian national carrier Air Serbia.
Now there are direct flights from Belgrade to Guangzhou, Tianjin and Shanghai.
Air Serbia’s Chief Executive Officer Jiri Marek came to Shanghai with the first flight on January 11 and visited the headquarters of Chinese online travel agency Trip.Com Group. There is a mutual visa exemption agreement for tourists between the two countries since 2016.
Both countries eliminated tariffs on 90 percent of the goods imported from each other according to the China-Serbia Free Trade Agreement that came into effect last July.
As Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said during Air Serbia’s Belgrade-Shanghai inaugural flight ceremony on Jan. 10, bilateral trade between China and Serbia almost achieved EUR7 billion (USD7.2 billion) last year. Serbia accepted nearly 147,000 Chinese tourists in the period.
From Chinese part, Hainan Airlines has launched flights from Beijing to Belgrade since July 2022, and China Southern Airlines launched direct flights on the Guangzhou – Belgrade route last September.
China’s international flight network layout has tended towards countries along the Belt and Road Initiative after the Covid-19 pandemic. 178 airlines have been approved to fly between China and 79 countries by the Civil Aviation Administration of China this winter-spring season. 57 of them were BRI countries (10,326 weekly flights or 53 percent of the total).
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