Vilnius Airport announced on December 23 a public tender for a new passenger departure terminal. The 14,400-square-metre building is set to double the number of passengers the airport is able to handle. The new building will sit adjacent to the old departures terminal, near the VIP terminal and a conference center that are currently being…
Ventas osta, the state company created to perform the functions of Ventspils port, will provide a professional and depoliticized management of the port, says Latvia’s Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins. The prime minister said that after US sanctions, it was decided to implement the plan outlined in the government declaration in regards to entrusting Ventspils port’s…
Design work for Rail Baltic’s Ulemiste Terminal is slated to begin next month, and the entire terminal must be fully ready for use by 2026, by which time the international railroad’s remaining infrastructure will have been complete. Rail Baltic Estonia OU Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Anvar Salomets said that Zaha Hadid Architects and OU Esplan,…
Uzbekistan Railways launches two new trains to Russia. “Starting from December 13 the Termez-Moscow-Termez train began to run, and from February 2020 a new direction, Andijan-Ufa-Andijan, will be added to the network schedule,” the company noted. In December 17 trains of the Uzbek carrier run from the capital of Uzbekistan Tashkent to Russia’s Volgograd, Yekaterinburg,…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order regarding measures to renovate roads in Khirdalan city. Under the presidential order, 3 million manats are allocated to the Azerbaijan Highway State Agency for renovation of the roads in Nizami, Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev, Sattar Bahlulzade and Galubiyya streets in Khirdalan city. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
Ukraine’s low-cost airline SkyUp Airlines has launched the sale of tickets for flights from Kharkiv to Batumi (Georgia), Burgas (Bulgaria) and Tel Aviv (Israel). The airline also resumes flights from Kharkiv to Tbilisi (Georgia), according to the airline’s press service. “On December 16 SkyUp Airlines launched the sale of tickets for flights from Kharkiv to…
A new low-cost airline is entering Armenia’s aviation market. Wizz Air budget airline will start operating flights from Yerevan in April 2020, Andras Rado, Corporate Communications Manager at Wizz Air budget airline, has announced. “From April 2020 we will start operating flights to Vienna and Vilnius. The flights will be carried out twice a week.…