As part of the working visit of the delegation of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Federal Republic of Germany, a meeting was held between Sohibjon Murodov, Director of the Agency for Management of State Assets of Uzbekistan, and Dr. Andreas Kerst, Head of the Division for State Shareholdings and Shareholder Participations at the German Federal Ministry of Transport.
The German side presented its experience in managing state participation in leading transport infrastructure companies, including Deutsche Bahn AG and DB InfraGO AG, as well as enterprises operating in road, water, and rail transport, airport, and road infrastructure sectors.
The discussions focused primarily on Germany’s approaches to the transformation of state-owned companies in the transport sector, improving corporate governance, enhancing financial and operational efficiency, and introducing modern strategic management mechanisms.
A separate focus of the discussions was Germany’s experience in managing toll motorways. The parties examined organisational and institutional models, approaches to financing and operating road infrastructure, as well as opportunities to apply relevant practices in Uzbekistan.
The participants attached particular importance to developing professional cooperation. In particular, they discussed organising expert consultations, sharing management experience, and implementing training programmes to enhance the professional competencies of specialists involved in managing state assets and transport infrastructure.
Following the meeting, the parties agreed to prepare and sign a cooperation agreement in the near future, outlining key areas of collaboration, including the transformation of state-owned enterprises in the transport sector, improvement of corporate governance, and development of professional competencies among specialists.
The agreements reached will lay the groundwork for attracting German expertise to the reform of Uzbekistan’s state-owned enterprises and introducing international best practices aimed at improving the efficiency of state property management.
