In January-November the port of Ventspils handled 19.471 million tons of cargo, up by 4% YoY, the port authority reported. Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo fell by 2%, to 9.615 million tons, and general cargo – by 7%, to 2.307 million tons, while dry bulk cargo grew by 17%, to 7.549 million tons. The port’s…
Passenger flow at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) decreased by 7.4% in January-November compared to the relevant period in 2018, the press service of the airport wrote on its Facebook page. “In January-November Kyiv International Airport serviced 2.414 million passengers, down by 7.4% YoY,” reads the report. The number of passengers serviced on international…
According to Statistics Estonia, freight carriage on Estonian railroads in October dropped by 17.7% YoY, to approximately 1.7 million tons. Compared with September freight carriage increased by 0.7%. In the first ten months of 2019 altogether 18 million tons of freight was carried on Estonian railroads, down by 22.3%. October freight transport turnover declined by…
Azerbaijani low-cost airline Buta Airways will launch direct flights from Baku to Lviv from December 23, the company has written on its Facebook page. “We are opening direct flights to one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe – Lviv. Use our flights starting from December 23,” Buta Airways wrote. The company added that…
Uzavtotrans Service intends to launch regular bus services with Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Samara and several other Russian cities in December. During the year, Uzavtotrans Service has bought 168 buses from Chinese company Zhengzhou Yutong Bus for international trips to Russia and Kazakhstan, which are in demand among labor migrants. Vehicles were purchased through a…
High-quality roads and motorways will connect all major cities and regional centers in Ukraine in three to five years, Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says. He noted the key point was personnel upgrades. He has called on the new head of Ukravtodor road construction agency, Oleksandr Kubrakov to hire new people for top posts at…
The Republic of Kazakhstan has granted additional 800 transit and 200 general permits to Ukraine to carry out road freight transport operations, according to the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine. “On November 26 a video conference with representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan took place. According to the…