The state-owned passenger train operator Elron sold tickets for EUR 1.1 million in September, up by 8% YoY. At 650,000 passengers, the number of people that used Elron’s connections increased by 9% as well, or by some 50,000 people. The company’s busiest routes in September this year were Tallinn-Paldiski with 116,000, Tallinn-Riisipere with 102,000, Tallinn-Aegviidu…
DetailsTurkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated Turkmen railway workers on putting a locomotive depot into operation in Bereket city, Balkan region. A locomotive depot has been built along the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway commissioned in December 2014. Railway transport is one of the most important segments of the Turkmen national economy. Big international projects have been implemented, railway…
DetailsThe Belarusian gross domestic product may go up by 12.1-15% by 2020, Belarus’ Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky said. “We have taken up a recovery path. This is not the growth that can be satisfactory for us, but we are gradually moving towards it. Having made a solid foundation in 2017, we are setting more ambitious…
DetailsLatvian Transport Ministry is currently engaged in reviewing specific offers for attraction of investors for airBaltic. A full privatization of the company is not out of the question, says the ministry’s state secretary Kaspars Ozolins. He says attraction of an investor is the main challenge at the moment. “We have been very productive lately. The…
DetailsPresident of Singapore Halima Jakob expressed her desire to expand cooperation with Turkmenistan in a letter to the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Noting that friendly relations were established between two countries, Halima Jakob “expressed confidence that mutually beneficial Turkmen-Singapore cooperation will be activated along the entire spectrum of directions.” Earlier it was reported that…
DetailsUkrainian and Polish Infrastructure Ministers Volodymyr Omelyan and Andrzej Adamczyk have signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of an international infrastructure project – the construction of the Via Carpatia transport corridor. The document was signed in Przemysl on October 22 in the presence of Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy and Marshal of the…
DetailsPrime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman says that the quality of railway services to city of Mariupol will be improved. “As to the transport connection with Mariupol, I fully agree that railway services are in poor conditions there. So, the railway authorities have already been instructed to modernize the rolling stock and improve the transport…
DetailsAccording to Statistics Estonia, the change of the construction price index in the third quarter of 2017 amounted to 0.9% compared to the previous quarter and 1.7% compared to the third quarter of 2016. In the third quarter compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the construction price index was primarily affected by…
DetailsThe 22th international conference and exhibition Oil and Gas Turkmenistan 2017 (OGT) will be held in Ashgabat on November 2-4, the Turkmen government said in a message. “Special attention will be paid to the diversification of supplies of Turkmen natural gas to world markets. In particular, the progress of construction and prospects of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India…
DetailsTurkmenistan’s purchasing centers received more than 1 million tons of raw cotton, said the country’s Ministry of Agriculture. Cotton is a significant export product of Turkmenistan and is in demand by dozens of modern companies of the country’s dynamically developing textile industry. It is planned to produce 1,050,000 tons of cotton in Turkmenistan in 2017.…
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