In April, Latvian airline airBaltic carried 287,560 passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. This is a 26% increase when compared with last year. The airline carried a total of 876,328 passengers in the first four months of 2017. In April, the airline performed 4,043 flights, up by 9% YoY,…
Last year, Russia was Latvia’s fourth largest external trade partner. Investment-wise, Russia was on the second place in terms of direct investments in Latvia, as reported by the Latvian-Russian regional cooperation group at a meeting in Pleskava. “As a strong wall is built from smaller bricks, our countries’ cooperation is made up of cooperation instances…
Belarus and Tajikistan will be expanding cooperation in the agricultural sector. The matter was discussed at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry on May 18. Opening the session, Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats noted that in Q1 the organizations making part…
The strategy of development of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia for 2017-2021 provides for a comprehensive modernization of rolling stock and infrastructure, company chairman Wojciech Balczun has said. “In the next five years we plan to invest UAH 130-150 billion,” he said at a press conference in Kharkiv. According to him, in particular, it is planned to upgrade…
In January-April the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine decreased by 0.3% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, agricultural enterprises lowered the production indices by 0.6%, while households of the population increased them by 0.1%. In 2016 the growth of agricultural production totaled more than 6%. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Russia’s Yamal Airlines is expected to start operating flights to Tajikistan from Zhukovsky Airport from July 1. According to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) of Tajikistan, Yamal Airlines will conduct three weekly flights to Dushanbe and three weekly flights to Khujand. An official source at a MoT said that they had coordinated the issue of…
Belarus has imposed a temporary restriction on the import of live poultry and hatching eggs from Tatarstan due to the outbreak of avian flu. A temporary restriction on the import of products from Tatarstan to Belarus has been introduced from May 17. It applies to live birds, hatching eggs, wild, zoo and circus susceptible animals,…