Economic cooperation between Belarus and Russia's St. Petersburg has been recovering at a good pace, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Saint Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov in Minsk on 1 February, BelTA has learned. 

As the head of state noted, the results for 2021 show that the economic cooperation between Belarus and St. Petersburg bounced back. The trade in January-November 2021 already surpassed the trade of 2020. "Most likely, we will hit $1.7 billion in trade. That was the trade we had before the pandemic," the president said. 

In 2021 trade and economic relations between Belarus and Saint Petersburg had positive dynamics. Mutual trade from January to November of last year amounted to about $1.6 billion, which was more than the trade in the entire 2020 when mutual trade was a little more than $1.5 billion. In January-November 2021, Belarus exported goods worth $895 million to St. Petersburg. Major exports were whole milk products, cheeses, cottage cheese and butter, non-alloy steel bars, specific goods, beef, meat and poultry by-products, plastic containers. The Russian city supplied Belarus with cars, electric motors and generators, beer, metal structures made of ferrous metals, refrigerators, freezers and refrigeration equipment. 

Belarusian manufacturers have entities of the commodity distribution network in St. Petersburg. A facility to assemble Mogilevliftmash elevators was launched at the site of OOO MLM Nevsky Lift in 2019.

Written by belta.by