Over the past 15 years of economic partnership, the inflow of direct investment from the Netherlands to Kazakhstan has exceeded $ 90 billion.
In September, the Netherlands-Kazakhstan Business Association resumed its work in The Hague. At the first meeting of the bilateral economic association this year, businessmen and diplomats checked the cooperation plans for this year.
Dirk Aleven, Head of Green Capital Kazakhstan, co-chairman of the Netherlands-Kazakhstan Business Association: “We started investing in Aktobe in 2017, invested 30 million euros in the economy of this region. We plan to invest the same amount in the next two years. We want to stay in this region for the next 10-20 years, and we have no reason to leave Kazakhstan. In Aktobe there is a sufficient amount of natural gas, good business opportunities, proximity to the Russian market and a favorable climate for greenhouse business: it is cold, but there are many sunny days in the year. The Netherlands is the logistic port of Europe. Kazakhstan is becoming the transport hub of Central Asia. This provides great opportunities for close cooperation. Nowadays, more than 60 large Dutch companies are represented in Kazakhstan. Most of them are joint ventures, since cooperation with local partners always gives the best results.”