The biggest challenge for mobility in Latvia is the large proportion of gravel roads in the country, said Chairman of Latvian State Roads Janis Lange during an annual road sector conference. 55% or more than 11,000 km of state roads have gravel surface. Nearly all of those roads are of local importance, with low traffic…
During the first three months of 2018 Heydar Aliyev International Airport served over 897,000 passengers. This indicator exceeds the same indicator of the previous year by 15%. National air carrier Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) carried 362,000 passengers, while the national low-cost airline Buta Airways – 104,000 passengers. 768,000 passengers (85.6% of passenger traffic) accounted for international…
A Belarusian parliamentary delegation headed by Valery Voronetsky, Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, met with Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Volkan Bozkir in Ankara, the press service of the House of Representatives…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has said that the trade turnover between Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova could reach $1 billion in the near future. In a post on his Facebook page, he wrote: “We have great opportunities in the economic cooperation. In 2017 the trade turnover between Ukraine and Moldova rose to…
The trade turnover between Ukraine and the Republic of Lithuania exceeded $1 billion in 2017, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote on Twitter. “We are greeting the Prime Minister of Lithuania in the House of Government. Saulius Skvernelis is on a visit to Ukraine. We are talking about political and economic cooperation. Our mutual trade exceeds…
Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) board chairman Enno Tamm is to step down as soon as a new CEO for Tallinn’s transport company has been found. Tallinn Mayor Taavi Aas (Center), who conducted a meeting of the supervisory board of TLT for the last time, said that Tamm had submitted a letter of resignation, which would…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda in January-March grew by 4.7% YoY, to 10.79 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo grew by 2.2%, to 852,000 tons, dry bulk cargo fell by 4.1%, to 1.48 million tons, while general cargo grew by 12.1%, to 1.2 million tons. In…