Tbilisi City Hall has announced that one-time fare for public transport will be 1 GEL instead of 50 tetri starting next year. Passengers will be able to choose the plan they want from the payment system. For a one-time trip, a passenger will have to pay 1 GEL, with which they can use bus, minibus,…
Lithuania’s state-owned railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LTG) risks falling under US sanctions as it continues to transport Belarusian fertilizers, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has warned. She was commenting on LTG’s statement that it had received an official confirmation from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one…
The head of the Civil Aviation Department, Alexander Nastayev, called on private airlines to restore air ambulance. He turned to the aviators with such a request at a meeting in Bishkek. “Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have completely lost this important service over the years. We don’t have it today. We…
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially confirmed that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest potash fertilizer producers and exporters, are not binding on Lithuania’s state-owned railways. Belaruskali, considered a lifeline for the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, exports a large share of its production via Lithuania. Lietuvos…
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, as part of his working trip to Jalal-Abad region, got acquainted with the progress of construction of an alternative North – South road. In particular, he examined the progress of the construction of the tunnel through Kok-Art pass. The Ministry of Transport noted that construction of 2,991 meters of the…
A China-controlled Spanish firm that has won Lithuania’s tender to build a railway bridge over the Neris River poses a threat to national security, a government panel has decided. The bridge is part of the Rail Baltica European standard-gauge railway project implemented by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG). “The commission has decided that LTG Infra’s…
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said Tbilisi City Hall was going to purchase 380 new buses in 2022. Kaladze also noted that old buses and minibuses would be totally replaced, and the municipal transport problem would finally be solved next year. “Tbilisi City Hall will purchase 180 units of 8-meter buses and 200 18-meter buses. New…