Armenia is exploring the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the future and the involvement of foreign partners in the project, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan said at a meeting with French ambassador to Yerevan Jonathan Lacote. Alexandre Gorbatchev from the French Atomic Energy Commission and representatives from Orano (formerly Areva) also participated…
Georgia exported about 12.2 million bottles of wine to 32 countries in January-February, up by 13% YoY, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency. In February Georgia generated $30 million from the sale of wine abroad, up by 21%. The top five countries that imported the most bottles of Georgian wine in January-February were: Russia –…
Risoil S.A. voiced the modernization plans in the seaport of Chernomorsk including a $70-million investment in transshipment terminal. “This amount will be invested within the framework of the Memorandum of cooperation signed with the USPA. The administration is engaged in dredging the access channel to 16 meters. For the successful implementation of this project and…
Wizz Air launched four new flights from Ukraine on March 1-3, in particular, from Kyiv to Bremen (Germany), Billund (Denmark) and Riga (Latvia) and from Lviv to Copenhagen (Denmark), the company’s press service has reported. According to the report, Wizz Air performed its first flights from Kyiv to Bremen, Billund and Riga, as well as…
An international wine competition judged exclusively by Japanese female wine specialists has awarded Georgian wine the competition’s highest award, the Diamond Trophy. The winner of the sixth Sakura competition highest award was a Kisi 2017 of the wine company Vaziani Winery. Kisi 2017 was also the winner of the Double Gold award in the Sakura…
Listed Estonian shipper Tallink Grupp carried a total of 620,006 passengers in February, down by 0.4% YoY. The number of cargo units carried by Tallink ships in February grew by 1.1%, to 29,115, while the number of passenger vehicles decreased by 1.2%, to 66,835, Tallink told the Tallinn Stock Exchange (TSE). The number of passengers…
Kazakh Industry and Infrastructure Development Minister Roman Sklyar spoke about the plans to launch the first flights of Fly Arystan, the country’s first low-cost airline. “Pursuant to the Kazakh President’s task Fly Arystan is to start flying in the first half of 2019. It is expected to carry up to 1 million passengers during the…