Minsk lost 44 countries of marketing

• 24.05.2013, 8:31

Mikalaj Ladutska told off capital’s officials.

According to the chairman of the Minsk city executive committee, in four months the city failed to fulfill the tasks of the social-economic development program. Region’s gross domestic product accounted for 42.6 trillion roubles. There is lagging behind the planned volumes of industrial output, export of goods, investments in fixed capital, BelTA reports.

Significant finished stocks cause particular concerns and negatively affect the economy of the enterprises.

As the chairman of the city executive committee’s economy committee Anton Krajeuski noted, such kinds of economic activity have negatively affected added value as processing industry, building, transport and communications, financial activities. According to him, there are objective as well as subjective reasons for that.

There is decrease in demand for Belarusian goods in traditional external markets, which affects Minsk’s export-oriented economy.

The economy committee sees faults of marketing departments of organizations in exports diversification, insignificant work on decreasing production costs and increasing efficiency. The goods of the capital’s enterprises was shipped to 100 countries in January-April, whereas last year this number accounted for 144. Only one new market has been discovered –Rwanda, shipments to El Salvador resumed, the export to Sweden, Iran, Azerbaijan, Romania, Belgium, and Serbia has significantly increased. But all this has not allowed to make up for the losses in Russian market. Five countries account for 85% of the export, out of which two thirds go for Russia.

Wholesale organizations have not rearranged their work in terms of export. Out of 430 wholesale organizations only one fifth part carries out export shipments. For the first quarter 83 pure importers carried out export shipments for 4.5 million USDs.

The chairman of Minsk city executive committee ordered to establish daily control over the situation with depot stocks and stir up the sales of domestic goods in domestic and external markets.