ALGIERS- Minister of Transport Aissa Bekkai held Wednesday, at the ministry’s headquarters, a meeting with a considerable number of investors in civil aviation and maritime transport, in which he decided to create a listening committee comprising all the concerned sectors for the monitoring and coordination of investment initiatives, said the ministry.

ALGIERS- Two projects for the conservation of cetaceans on the Algerian coast, financed by the executive Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS), have been launched, the Ministry of Fishing and Fish Production said in its official Facebook page.

ALGIERS-Algeria’s non-hydrocarbon exports increased by 95.55% and reached US$2.03 billion in the first half of 2021, said the Trade Ministry in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- The Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACI) and Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCC) signed Tuesday a memorandum of understanding on the creation of an Algerian-Ugandan business council, CACI said in statement.

JIJEL- Djendjen Port Company (province of Jijel) processed 3.6 million tonnes (MT) of various goods in the first half of 2021.

ALGIERS-Minister of Trade and Export Promotion Kamel Rezig on Sunday held talks with Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood on the prospects for bilateral trade cooperation, said Monday the ministry in a communiqué.

ALGIERS- Chief Executive Officer of Sonelgaz Chaher Boulakhras, accompanied by a delegation made up of the group’s senior executives, will start Monday a working visit to Nouakchott, where a memorandum of understanding with the Mauritanian electricity company "Somelec" will be signed.

ALGIERS- President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, reassured Sunday about the amount of foreign exchange reserves currently amounting to US$ 44 billion against 53 billion USD at the end of 2019, insisting on the principle of not resorting to external debt in order to strengthen Algeria's sovereignty, said Sunday the Council of Ministers in a statement. 

ALGIERS- Minister of Industry Ahmed Zeghdar announced Saturday addressing all the difficulties hindering the exports of the industrial cement Group of Algeria (GICA) which will exceed USD1 billion in 2022, said the ministerial statement.

ALGIERS-Former Minister of Industry Mahmoud Khoudri, 73, on Friday died of Covid-19, the National Liberation Front (FLN) told APS.