Riga Black Balsam brand has begun exploring the market in the United States of America. Exploration of the market commenced with New York, to be followed up by a presentation of Riga Black Balsam in Texas, Florida, San Francisco and Illinois in 2018, as reported by the company’s representatives. “The brand’s start in USA kicked…
Compared to the nine months of 2016, the volume of freights carried by land and pipelines had increased by 2.3 million tons or by 2.7% and freight turnover by 3% in the nine months of 2017. The volume of freights carried by rail went up by 1 million tons or by 2.8%, whereas the freight…
Latvijas celu buvetajs, which is an association with ties to multiple road and bridge construction companies, invites deputies to support the proposal for the restoration of the State Road Fund, the association’s chairman Andris Berzins reported. “We have asked coalition deputies to admit multiple times that the gradual collapse of roads, especially regional and local…
In the first six months since airBaltic has started performing regular domestic flights between Riga and Liapaja more than 4,780 passengers have been carried on this route. It is reported that airBaltic will be performing regular flights to Liepaja this winter and in the 2018 summer season. More than 715 bookings have already been made…
In the first ten months of 2017, airBaltic carried a total of 3,007,034 passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. In October airBaltic carried 319,018 passengers or 26% more than last year. “We are happy to announce than more than 3 million passengers have used our services this year, which…
There are approximately 4,000 km of roads in Latvia that are practically unused for transport, said Latvian Transport Minister Uldis Augulis on November 9. He says most of those roads are local and municipal roads. With that, maintenance intensity will be reduced for those roads. “It would be nice if we could maintain roads leading…
Latvian national airline, airBaltic, plans to launch Riga-Almaty flights next year. “I can now say that starting next year airBaltic will fly through Almaty. I think it will be a direct flight between Riga and Almaty. This year, we have obtained new Bombardier CS 300 aircrafts. Besides, nearly 60 direct flights connect Latvia with other…