The state will continue developing highways section by section, as continuing with developments using large-scale procurements is not reasonable, Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas (Center) has said. “The capacity of the procurement depends much on how much has been prepared. I do not mean only projects but other preparations as well. There…
Uzbekistan declared 2021 the year of youth support and public health promotion. It is with this purpose President Shavkat Mirziyoyev gathered officials for a regular meeting on January 27. The official unemployment rate among youth aged 18 to 30 is 17%. 26,000 young people do not have a job in Tashkent alone. At the same…
Construction of a railway along Balykchi – Kochkor – Kara-Keche route may connect the northern and southern regions of Kyrgyzstan in the future, Kyrgyz Temir Zholu state enterprise reports. The construction project is included in the National Development Strategy of Kyrgyzstan for 2018-2040. “The project is of great social and economic importance, first of all,…
Ukraine in cooperation with Lithuania will increase container transportation and plan to liberalize the conditions of bilateral and transit transportation. “Increase in container transportation is one of the key priorities of cooperation with Lithuania,” Vladyslav Kryklii said after a video meeting with Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania Marius Skuodis. The…
SkyUp Airlines will launch flights on the Kyiv-Tbilisi-Kyiv route twice a week from February 4. According to a representative of Tbilisi International Airport, regular flights between Georgia and Turkey on the Tbilisi-Istanbul-Tbilisi route will also be launched from February 4. Pegasus Airlines will operate flights five times a week. Starting from March, flights are planned…
In 2020, Latvia’s State Environment Service (VVD) performed a total of 4,665 fishing inspections within Latvia’s internal waters, VVD reports. VVD inspected a total of 8,495 bodies of water in the country. In spite of the country’s adopted measures adopted to limit the spread of Covid-19, the number of inspections performed in this area last…
Kaido Zimmerman has been appointed management board chair of state railtrack company Eesti Raudtee. Zimmermann starts his five-year term on March 1. He was elected by Eesti Raudtee’s supervisory board. He replaces Erik Laidvee, who resigned in December 2020. Sven Pertens, supervisory board chair, said, Kaido Zimmermann’s reputation, management experience at Eesti Raudtee and elsewhere,…