Latvian airline airBaltic carried 3,842,952 passengers in January-November, up by 18% YoY, to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. In November, a total of 289,566 passengers or 15% more than last year traveled with airBaltic. During the eleven months of 2018 airBaltic operated 51,791 flights. In November, the airline performed…
Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in January-November climbed by 13.8% YoY, to 6,893,000 tons, the Port Authority says. In the reporting period transshipment of grain grew by 22.3%, to 2,781,500 tons, anthracite – by 15.6%, to 1.32 million tons, and construction materials – by 21.9%, to 711,300 tons, while transshipment of oil…
In January-October the total cargo turnover decline reached 2.1% at Ventspils port in comparison to the same period a year ago. This is the second lowest decline after the anti-record of 2016. In total, nearly 17 million tons of cargoes went through Ventspils port in this period of time, or 31% of the total volume…
Latvian airline airBaltic on December 1 in Riga welcomed the last Airbus A220-300 jet for the year, registered as YL-CSM. Currently airBaltic has a total of 14 Airbus A220-300 aircraft on its fleet. Thus far, airBaltic has carried over 1 850 000 passengers on the Airbus A220-300 aircraft with every third airBaltic passenger flying on…
In September and October wind power plants in Latvia doubled their yield of electricity for the country’s total balance when compared to the previous four months, according to information compiled by AS Augstsprieguma tikls. The total balance of wind energy was 4.3%, or 16,381 MWh in September and 4.06% or 15,851 MWh in October. The…
Compared to September, level of producer prices in Latvian industry rose by 0.1% in October. Prices of products sold on the domestic market fell by 0.5%, while prices of exported products went up by 0.7%. Prices of products exported to Eurozone countries grew by 0.3% and prices of products exported to non-Eurozone by 0.9%, according…
920.1 thousand people or 65.3% of Latvia population aged 15-74 were employed in Q3. Over the year, employment rate grew by 1.7% and number of employed persons by 17.2 thousand. Compared to the previous quarter, employment rate grew by 0.9% and number of employed persons by 10.5 thousand. Nevertheless, since Q4 2012 Latvian employment rate…