In January-October the Freeport of Riga handled 29,917,600 tons of cargo, up by 6.5% YoY. Transshipment of coal grew by 14.6%, to 11,508,800, wood pellets – by 38.2%, to 740,600 tons, and ore – by 10.7%, to 464,200 tons, while oil products dropped by 28.1%, to 3.445 million tons. The port’s container throughput grew by…
Compared to August, the level of construction costs in Latvia rose by 0.5% in September. Labor remuneration of workers increased by 1.2%, maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment by 0.5%, and prices of building materials by 0.1%. In September the average level of construction costs was mostly affected by the increase in labor…
Provisional costs of construction of the new “A” wing of Pauls Stradins Criminal University Hospital have grown by one-third or by EUR 30.684 million, as reported by the hospital’s board member Janis Komisars during a meeting of Saeima’s Public Expenditure and Audit Committee. According to him, initial costs of the project were estimated around EUR…
Last week the Freeport of Riga Authority together with SIA Riga Container Terminal represented the Freeport of Riga in one of the largest Asian transport and logistics exhibitions “The 13th China (Shenzhen) International Logistics and Transportation Fair” in the Chinese port city of Shenzhen, as well as participated in several major industry events. During the…
After nearly a two-year long procedure, SIA Rigas mikroautobusu satiksme (RMS) has once again acquired rights to provide minibus transport services in the capital. As confirmed by Rigas satiksme representative Viktors Zakis, the current value of the contract is EUR 96 million and the term is eight years. RMS and RS have been cooperating since…
Saeima’s Economic, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Policy Committee supported in the third reading amendments to the Handling of Alcoholic Beverages Law, which provided that small breweries would be allowed to produce drinks using berries, fruit and plants that grew in the wild or cultivated in gardens in Latvia. Amendments are intended to define that small…
AirBaltic airline has received its twelfth Airbus A220-300 aircraft with registration number YL-CSN. The airline plans to have a total of fourteen Airbus A220-300 aircraft by the end of 2018. “So far airBaltic has carried more than 1,600,000 passengers using Airbus A220-300 aircraft. Every third of our passengers travels with Airbus A220-300 aircraft. So far,…