A number of new routes between the cities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan may be launched in the near future, Minister of transport of Tajikistan Khudoer Khudoerzoda declared. A regular bus service was opened between Khujand and Tashkent in mid-May. It was also planned to open new bus routes to other cities of Uzbekistan, but this…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia, the construction price index of the second quarter increased by 0.3% QoQ and by 2% YoY. In the second quarter, compared to the same quarter last year, the construction price index was affected primarily by an increase in the cost of labor, which accounted for three quarters of…
The passenger traffic at the Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport hit 2,045,154 passengers in January-June, up by 17% YoY, the company’s press service reports. In the past six months it also increased internal passenger flow by 12%, the airport served 1,346,578 people at large. During the period under consideration, the international airport received 798,576 of international…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has estimated GDP growth in Ukraine in the second quarter of 2018 at 3.2% YoY. “According to the NBU estimates, the pace of real GDP growth remained practically unchanged in the second quarter, that is 3.2% (3.1% in Q1), and domestic demand was the main driver of the real…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has met with the managers of the French automaker Renault and discussed the prospects for production location in Ukraine. “I have met with the managers of the leading automaker, the French company Renault. We discussed the possibility of locating the Renault production in Ukraine. This would help create additional jobs…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda in January-June grew by 7.6% YoY, to 22.2 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Container throughput totaled 74,370 TEUs. In the reporting period the port serviced 143,180 passengers, up by 1%. The number of calls totaled 3,257 (+0.4%). The state-run Port of Klaipeda, the northernmost ice-free…
Enterprises affiliated with the Agriculture and Food Ministry increased exports 2.4-fold to the countries of Asia and Oceania in January-May, Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, reported. “Work on export diversification continues. We have seen positive dynamics practically on all tracks except Russia.…