Mission économique
A Belgian-Luxembourg economic mission will be visiting the Russian region Ural from November 10 to 16, 2013. The mission will focus on business-to-business meetings, jointly organized by the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce for Russia and Belarus, and our local partners.
These meetings will be supplemented by exclusive events such as the visit of the LUKOIL refinery which processes more than 16 million tons of oil stock used for the production of more than two million tons of automobile gasoline of several varieties. The participants will also visit the high authorities of the three cities Perm, Ekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk.
The southern half of the Ural region has been a major center of Russian iron and steel production. Deposits of iron ore, manganese, and aluminum ore are mined. A substantial share of Soviet petroleum was produced there.
In general the leading sectors are chemical and petrochemical industry, fuel industry, steel industry, mechanical engineering, wood processing industry, transport engineering, military machinery, and more. Nowadays, one third of the economy is occupied by small and medium sized businesses.
In addition the Ural region awaits a number of large events over the next five years. The most prominent among them are the Olympic Torch Relay and the World Judo Championship in 2014, and the FIFA World cup matches in 2018.