Public transport in Tallinn is currently free for all registered residents of the capital city. The coalition Centre Party, however, intends to expand free public transport in Tallinn to all Estonian residents, part of a broader effort to ultimately provide free transport throughout Estonia. According to Centre Party board member Toomas Vitsut, the time has…
President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine’s economic growth in 2019 is expected to reach about 3.4% of GDP, which is the highest in eight years. “We hope that this year economic growth will be within 3.4% – this is a record figure in 8 years. But it’s only the beginning of implementation and results…
Ukrainian producers in 2018 boosted exports of eggs in shell by 21.3%, to almost 107,500 tons, while shell egg exports in monetary terms increased by 37.1%, to $94.1 million. Imports of eggs in shell in 2018 decreased by 40% in physical terms and by 32% in monetary terms, to 3,400 tons and $13.1 million, respectively,…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an Order regarding measures to construct Zardab-Garavalli road in Zardab. Under the presidential order, the Azerbaijan Highway State Agency is allocated 3.9 million manats for the construction of the road connecting six residential areas with a total population of 7,000 people. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
In December 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 811,261 passengers, down by 0.5% YoY. The number of cargo units decreased by 4.4%, to 27,076 units and the number of passenger vehicles by 3.3%, to 84,814. In the fourth quarter of the 2018 financial year (October – December) AS Tallink Grupp transported 2,251,084 passengers, down by 2.8%…
Uzbekistan is negotiating to attract Germany’s Deutsche Bahn for reforming Uzbekistan Railways. “Now we are working with Deutsche Bahn, a German state-owned company, the world’s largest railway freight carrier. We are now negotiating with them to attract their experts and consultants to develop a strategy for further activities of Uzbekistan Railways,” said Laziz Kudratov, the…
The World Bank has predicted a decline in real GDP of Ukraine, from 3.5% in 2018 to 2.9% in 2019, which is fundamentally different from the IMF forecasts for Ukraine after the launch of the new Stand-By Arrangement. The World Bank published the relevant data in the report Global Economic Prospects on its official website.…