Uzagroeksport Company, Uzbekistan’s only operator that provides supplies of fruits and vegetables abroad, has opened a new trading house in Astana in partnership with Kazakh partners.
The largest transport and logistics center in Kazakhstan, built by Continental Logistics, was chosen as a venue of the Central Asian trading house for the convenience of traders and transporters.
The trading house provides with ‘A’ class warehouse complexes outfitted with advanced automated equipment, thereby creating an appropriate framework to ensure the logistics of various types of cargo, and significantly increase the loading and unloading capacity.
The facility will be engaged in wholesale and retail trade, organization of deliveries, customs clearance and sales of Uzbek food products. It will also deal with the development and implementation of marketing policy, conclusion of agreements and contracts with retail chains and other interested companies in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
It has to be recalled that in the next two years, Uzbekistan intends to build a network of trade houses around the world, to promote fresh and processed fruits and vegetables as well as food products.
To date, Uzagroeksport has already opened four trading houses in Russia and three in Kazakhstan. The work on the establishment of trade houses in the UAE, South Korea, India and some countries of the European Union is nearing completion. Negotiations are also underway in the new markets in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia.
As of early 2016, direct deliveries of Uzbek fruits and vegetables to Russia and Central Asian countries have tripled, to South Korea have grown fivefold, to the UAE – by 1.8 times, to Germany – 1.6 times. In 10 months, Uzbekistan exported a total of nearly 700,000 tons of agricultural products, and by the end of the current year the number is expected to reach one million tons.
