A senior delegation of Kazakhstan MoD finance managers responsible for budgeting and finance planning for the national armed forces participated in a workshop on best practice in annual reporting and cost management in London. They attended presentations by UK Defence Forum, PWC, Alvarez & Marshal LLP, Tiffins Consultancy and other companies.
The delegation was particularly interested in risk management in procurement, cost control and military hardware insurance. As part of the workshop programme the Kazakhstan delegation analysed the latest UK MoD annual report

A delegation of senior technical managers form a number of Russian and Kazakhstan mining companies and Kunaev Mining Institute of Kazakhstan visited Kiruna Mine, the largest and most technologically advanced iron ore mine in Europe, on 3-8 September 2016. The delegation went down 1350 m into the mine owned by the Swedish company Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB during the visit organised by Transeuropean Centre Ltd with the assistance of the leading mining consultants Golder Associates as part of a seminar on Cave Mining. Senior representative of the following companies made presentations at the seminar: LKAB, SRK Consulting, Atlas Copco and ABB.
The seminar was attended by senior managers of the following companies: Donskoi Mine – branch of Kazchrome, Eurochem, Kovdorski Mine, TOMS-project, Eurasian Group, Kunaev Mining Institute of Kazakhstan, Kola Mining Company, Norilsk Nickel Mining Co.

Photo 1: The delegation at LKAB Kiruna Mine

Photo 2: Technical Presentation at ABB, Kiruna