OREANDA-NEWS.  January 12, 2012. Foreign currency contracts concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week totalled over USD 157.425 million. 27 transactions were registered.

Businessmen from the United Kingdom, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and the Virgin Islands bought diesel fuel, gasoline, hydrofined diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, low-sulphur reduced fuel oil and propylene produced at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries. Liquefied gas from the Nayip terminal and A grade technical iodine (Turkmenhimiya State Concern) was the choice of businessmen from the United Kingdom, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Foreign currency contracts were also concluded for cotton yarn, ginned cotton and yarn waste. The buyer-countries: the United Kingdom, China, Switzerland, Russia, Singapore, Ukraine and the Virgin Islands.

Deposit manat contracts were concluded for saraja wool, karakul wool, cotton yarn. The buyer-countries: the United States, the United Kingdom and Kyrgyzstan. The transactions totalled over 996,470 manat.

Turkmen businessmen bought polypropylene to the sum of over 38,436 manat.