The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Netherlands visited the Port of Rotterdam

The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Netherlands Askar Zhumagaliyev visited the Port of Rotterdam. This visit is organised as a follow-up event of the previous meeting with Shell Vice President Joanna Kunsberg. During the visit, the Kazakh delegation got acquainted with the port infrastructure and its role in the country's economy. It should be noted that the Port of Rotterdam is 50 kilometers of developed logistics and industrial infrastructure, which produce 6% of the total GDP of the Netherlands. Particular attention was paid to discussing the development of the petrochemical sector, which today accounts for about 3.5% of the country's GDP and is mainly located in the Port of Rotterdam. During the meeting, the port authorities expressed their interest in cooperation with the Republic of Kazakhstan in the fields like transport and logistics and petrochemical sector.

To note, earlier Askar Zhumagaliyev and Joanna Kunsberg discussed the long-term partnership between Kazakhstan and Shell. In her speech, J.Kunsberg introduced updated Shell’s development strategy. Within the strategy Shell is actively developing it's capacity in chemical industry, as well as implementing of the concept of "green energy" and achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions into the earth's atmosphere in accordance with the Paris Agreement

In this regard, the Kazakh Ambassador suggested to promote further bilateral cooperation through the implementation of new projects of "green energy", petrochemistry and gas industry.

For reference: The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which regulates measures to reduce the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 2020. The agreement was prepared during the Paris Climate Conference and adopted by consensus on December 12, 2015, and signed on April 22, 2016.