Following adoption of restrictions during COVID-19 pandemic, passenger transports by train have declined by 40-50% when compared to the same period of 2019, Pasazieru vilciens board chairman Rodzers Janis Grigulis has declared. Trains were half-empty in April, the situation was better in May and the number of passengers carried in June improved considerably. Grigulis says…
The bus operator FlixBus (Germany) resumed operations in Ukraine on separate international routes from June 25. According to the company’s press service, tickets are already on sale for trips from Kyiv via Zhytomyr, Rivne, Lviv, Uzhgorod to Krakow, Budapest, Vienna and more than a dozen German cities, and from July 3 green branded buses will…
Public transport services of Almaty city will be replenished with 167 new buses until the end of the year. According to the city administration, in 2019, the city’s public transport services’ rolling stock purchased 450 buses – 260 by the public fleets and 190 by private fleets – including 260 gas-powered buses, 180 diesel buses…
Belarusian specialists have helped overhaul part of the M05 Kiev-Odessa motorway, representatives of the Belarusian embassy in Ukraine have reported. A major overhaul of a 25 km-long section of the M05 Kiev-Odessa motorway has been completed within the framework of a Ukrainian government program. Part of this section (15 km) was repaired by the Belarusian-Ukrainian…
During this year’s Ligo celebration – June 23-24 – public transport services in Latvia will not be free of charge. At the same time, however, certain discounts and benefits will be in place, as reported by Riga municipality. As previously reported, to prevent crowds from forming and ensure compliance with COVID-19 restrictions, Riga City Council’s…
Turkish Airlines intends to resume flights to Ukraine from July 1. In particular, Turkish Airlines plans to operate flights from Istanbul to Kyiv ten times a week, to Odesa – seven times a week and to Lviv – five times a week. Flights to Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are currently not planned. Infrastructure Minister of…
Odesa Seaport handled 10.45 million tons of cargo in January-May, up by 3.2% YoY. According to the data of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, the port increased the transshipment of exported cargo by 0.3%, to 7.693 million tons, and imported cargo by 22.9%, to 2.241 million tons. Coastal cargo handling decreased by 33.1%, to 41,730…