Fish production in aquaculture holdings equaled 2,071 tons in 2020 in Georgia, down by 16% YoY, the National Statistics Office (Geostat) reported. Production of Salmonidae amounted to 1,155 tons (-13.8%), Cyprinidae – 838.4 tons (-17.2%), while production of sturgeons equaled 60.1 tons (-22.4%) and production of Siluridae – 17.5 tons (+22.4%). Rainbow trout had the…
Ukraine International Airlines performed 2,039 scheduled flights in January-June, down by 49% YoY and by 85% compared with H1 2019, the company’s press service reported. UIA performed 2,108 charter flights in the first half of 2021, compared to 266 in the same period of 2020 and 1,172 in the same period of 2019. During January-June,…
Ukraine has already received $40 million in revenue from the tourist flow from Arab countries, according to Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko. “Thanks to the presidential decree, citizens of six Arab countries were given the opportunity to come to Ukraine without a visa. In just six months, three times more people came…
Two more European airlines are to resume flights to Georgia in the summer season, the Civil Aviation Agency reports. Lithuanian airline Getjet and Estonian airline Smartlynx will operate several charter flights on the Vilnius – Batumi – Vilnius and Tallinn – Batumi – Tallinn directions. According to the application filed by Getjet with the Civil…
Estonian shipping line Tallink saw a 28% YoY fall in passenger numbers in July, the company reported to the Tallinn Stock Exchange, and carried 444,112 passengers that month. The fall was even greater on the Estonia-Finland route, where passenger numbers were over 43% down, but on the other hand, recovery was experienced on routes to…
“Some companies put a 300-400% price tag on drugs in Georgia, which is unacceptable”, said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. “We, the Georgian government, should make the right decision shortly as it affects the well-being of our population. Nothing like this is happening in any country”, said Garibashvili. Irakli Garibashvili also noted that the Georgian…
At the beginning of August there were 191,193 taxpayers legal persons registered in Latvia, down by 2.1% YoY, according to data published by Latvian State Revenue Service (VID). When compared to July 1, the number of taxpayers legal persons in Latvia dropped by 108 or by 0.1%. At the beginning of August, the majority of…