Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov attended foundation-laying ceremonies for the Ashgabat–Dashoguz highway, a vegetable oil production plant and a nitrogen fertilizer complex during a working trip to Dashoguz Region. He also remotely launched a 44-kilometre section of the Garabogaz–border area road, part of the Turkmenbashi–Garabogaz–Kazakhstan border highway.
The 546-kilometre Ashgabat–Dashoguz highway is planned as part of the North–South transport corridor and will connect the capital with the country’s northern region. The project includes upgrading 9 existing bridges and building a new two-lane bridge, 812 metres long and 25 metres wide, along with 136 bus stops, 13 parking areas and 7 road police monitoring posts. Video surveillance and speed-control systems will also be installed.
The oil extraction plant in Garashsyzlyk etrap is expected to process 60,000 tonnes of technical cotton seeds annually. It will be able to receive 600 tonnes of raw material per day, while its crude oil purification shop will have a capacity of 50 tonnes per day. The plant is expected to produce around 9 million one-litre bottles of oil each year and employ about 250 people.
