Passenger flow at Tbilisi International Airport recovered by 92% compared to the pre-pandemic 2019 figure in August, TAV Georgia, the company operating two major airports in the country, said on September 12. In further details, TAV Georgia said the airport serviced 363,830 passengers in August, up by 48% YoY. Figures for Batumi International Airport in…
Lithuania is set to open its trade office in Taiwan this week, the South China Morning Post has reported. The move is likely to cause additional friction with Beijing, which has downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania and imposed economic sanctions after the Taiwanese representative office opened in Vilnius last year. China considers Taiwan part of…
The national air operators will be banned from making flights to Russia. The Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) on September 12 issued an Operational Directive to this end. According to an AAC press release, the decision was taken in order to ensure the aviation safety and security, taking into account a decision issued by the International…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that a back-up power line needed for cooling has been restored at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. “A back-up power line to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been restored, providing the plant with the external electricity it needs for reactor cooling and other safety functions,”…
Ukraine expects the West to supply it with more artillery, aircraft and air-launched missiles, as it needs at least twice as many heavy weapons as it receives now, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, has said in Vilnius. “To win against Russia, there’s just one condition, which is twice the amount of…
Estonian renewables generator Enefit Green is in the process of developing a wind farm in Lithuania, which will be the largest the company operates, and is scheduled to start production in April 2023. Enefit Green is a subsidiary of state electricity generator Eesti Energia. The 75 MW development is under construction in Akmene, in northern…
On September 8, a meeting of the Ukrainian part of the Ukrainian-Polish Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation was held under the chairmanship of Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. The parties discussed the main prospective directions of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation within the framework of the preparation…