All three Baltic States have poorly developed railway system. On top of that, the countries’ railway infrastructure is very poorly connected to other countries, as concluded in the monthly “Connection Failed” study by Greenpeace. The study analysed existing and potentially direct railway connections between the biggest European cities as compared to air connections. In total,…
More than EUR 1 billion will be given to the Rail Baltic project, which will eventually connect Tallinn to the Polish border, the European Commission has said. Together with national co-financing from the three Baltic States, the available funding will increase by EUR 1.5 billion, Latvia’s public broadcaster LSM reports. Of the additional funding, Estonia…
No cross-border bus services are planned between southern Estonia and northern Latvia this summer. A pilot project has been postponed until 2025. Public transport companies wanted to launch a two-year program this summer with financial assistance from the European Union. The plan has now been pushed back until approximately next spring. Problems arose due to…
Ukraine has developed plans to rebuild one of the largest cargo aircraft, the An-225 Mriya, the only model of which was destroyed by Russia in the first days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. David Lomdzharia, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ukroboronprom, said this on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington.…
Klaipeda port authority will need to pay Latvian construction company BMGS JSC nearly half a million euros for additional work during the reconstruction of a berth, as ruled by the Lithuanian Court of Arbitration. On July 4, the court lifted the ruling of the March 8 of Klaipeda Regional Court and imposed the disbursement of…
A Polish rocket that uses a pioneering type of environmentally friendly fuel has reached space for the first time. Taking off from the Andoya base in Norway on July 3 and travelling at a speed of up to 1.4 km per second, the ILR-33 Ambert 2K rocket passed an altitude of 100 km, which marked…
Transit of Ukrainian products across the Hungarian border increased by 30% over the year. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Ihor Zhovkva. “Over the past year alone, the transit of Ukrainian products across the Hungarian border has increased by 30%. Let me remind you that Hungary has never blocked the transit…