Astara (Iran) – Astara (Azerbaijan) railway project plays a significant role in the implementation of the North-South international transport corridor and in increasing transit revenues of the two countries. Rail laying on the 40-kilometer section of the Rasht-Astara railway in the province of Gilan in northern Iran will shortly begin, said Saeid Rasouli, President of…
The cornerstone for a EUR 7.5-million senior living apartment building to be built by construction company Nordlin Ehitus in Pohja-Tallinn will be laid in a special ceremony. The building to be erected at Maleva 18 will consist of 76 one-room and four two-room apartments. The apartments will be designed for maximum accessibility, and 80% of…
National airline Uzbekistan Airways will launch direct flights to Phuket (Thailand) in winter. Flights will be operated from December 14, 2019, to January 25, 2020, once a week according to the following schedule: – Saturday: HY-535 Tashkent 21:00 (GMT+5) – Phuket 05:30 (GMT+7) (Sunday). – Sunday: HY-536 Phuket 07:05 (GMT+7) – Tashkent 11:45 (GMT+5). The…
The profitability of large and medium-sized Ukrainian enterprises reached UAH 218.1 billion in January-June, up by 23.4% YoY, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. “In January-June the financial result (pre-tax revenues) of Ukrainian large and medium-sized enterprises came to UAH 218.1 billion in revenues (UAH 176.8 billion in January-June 2018),” reads the report.…
Despite the fact that in 2018-2019 MY Ukraine slightly reduced the export volumes of wheat bran, the supply geography of the product significantly expanded, and already reached nearly 20 countries. In 2018-2019 MY Ukraine shipped nearly 539 thousand tons of wheat bran to foreign markets, against almost 586 thousand tons in the previous season. The…
A total of 13,948 people received unemployment insurance benefits in Estonia in the second quarter of 2019, Statistics Estonia reported. The total number of recipients increased by 0.9% QoQ and by 0.5% YoY. The average size of a payout in the second quarter was EUR 468, up by 12.8% YoY and by 5.2% QoQ. Women…
Passenger transportation by motor and other urban transport has grown by 3% in a year in Kazakhstan. In January-July passenger transportation in Kazakhstan rose from 13.1 billion to 13.5 billion people, which made 103% against the same period of the last year. The volume of cargo transportation increased from 1.8 billion to 1.9 billion tons,…