In December 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 811,261 passengers, down by 0.5% YoY. The number of cargo units decreased by 4.4%, to 27,076 units and the number of passenger vehicles by 3.3%, to 84,814. In the fourth quarter of the 2018 financial year (October – December) AS Tallink Grupp transported 2,251,084 passengers, down by 2.8%…
Uzbekistan is negotiating to attract Germany’s Deutsche Bahn for reforming Uzbekistan Railways. “Now we are working with Deutsche Bahn, a German state-owned company, the world’s largest railway freight carrier. We are now negotiating with them to attract their experts and consultants to develop a strategy for further activities of Uzbekistan Railways,” said Laziz Kudratov, the…
The World Bank has predicted a decline in real GDP of Ukraine, from 3.5% in 2018 to 2.9% in 2019, which is fundamentally different from the IMF forecasts for Ukraine after the launch of the new Stand-By Arrangement. The World Bank published the relevant data in the report Global Economic Prospects on its official website.…
In the first 4 months of 2018-2019 MY (July-October) Ukraine imported 509 tons of rye, up 3-fold YoY (238 tons), but down by 62% from 2016-2017 MY (1.3 thousand tons). At the same time, in two recent seasons Ukraine imported the grain exclusively from the EU countries, while in 2016-2017 MY there were rather significant…
Georgia will purchase double amount of anti-flu vaccines for 2019-2020 and this will be 80,000 vaccines instead of the 41,000 purchased for 2018-2019, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze has reported. “The supply we had for 2018-2019 is almost used. In the autumn, before the new season, we will purchase 80,000 vaccines,”…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia, in November 2018, the exports of goods increased by 18% and imports by 15% YoY. The trade deficit was EUR 56 million, dropping under EUR 60 million for the first time since January 2015. In November 2018, the top destination countries of Estonia’s exports were Finland (15% of…
Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in 2018 climbed by 24.4% YoY, to 7,537,600 tons, the Port Authority says. In the reporting period, transshipment of grain grew by 20.9%, to 3,034,400 tons, anthracite – by 22.6%, to 1.47 million tons, and construction materials – by 21.9%, to 762,400 tons, while transshipment of oil…