Industrial production in Ukraine in September decreased by 0.3% YoY, while in August it increased by 1.2%, the State Statistics Service has said. The agency said taking into account adjustment for the effect of calendar days, industrial production in September from September 2016 declined by a mere 0.1%. It said in comparison with the previous…
Italy-based Ernest Airlines carried out its first flight from Orio al Serio International Airport (Milan/Bergamo) to the Ukrainian Danylo Halytskyi International Airport in Lviv with 102 passengers on board on October 20, according to Lviv airport’s press service. The plane made its return flight to Milan with 99 passengers on board, it said. Ernest Airlines…
The state-owned passenger train operator Elron sold tickets for EUR 1.1 million in September, up by 8% YoY. At 650,000 passengers, the number of people that used Elron’s connections increased by 9% as well, or by some 50,000 people. The company’s busiest routes in September this year were Tallinn-Paldiski with 116,000, Tallinn-Riisipere with 102,000, Tallinn-Aegviidu…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated Turkmen railway workers on putting a locomotive depot into operation in Bereket city, Balkan region. A locomotive depot has been built along the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway commissioned in December 2014. Railway transport is one of the most important segments of the Turkmen national economy. Big international projects have been implemented, railway…
The Belarusian gross domestic product may go up by 12.1-15% by 2020, Belarus’ Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky said. “We have taken up a recovery path. This is not the growth that can be satisfactory for us, but we are gradually moving towards it. Having made a solid foundation in 2017, we are setting more ambitious…
Latvian Transport Ministry is currently engaged in reviewing specific offers for attraction of investors for airBaltic. A full privatization of the company is not out of the question, says the ministry’s state secretary Kaspars Ozolins. He says attraction of an investor is the main challenge at the moment. “We have been very productive lately. The…
President of Singapore Halima Jakob expressed her desire to expand cooperation with Turkmenistan in a letter to the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Noting that friendly relations were established between two countries, Halima Jakob “expressed confidence that mutually beneficial Turkmen-Singapore cooperation will be activated along the entire spectrum of directions.” Earlier it was reported that…