A total of 175 brand new buses will appear in six Georgian cities in autumn and winter, as Georgia has signed a deal with a Turkish company. Turkey’s leading bus manufacturer Otokar aims to take public transportation in Georgia “to a new level” with its 117 AGILO C 8.5-meter buses and 58 KENT C 10-meter…
Thanks to Europe reopening partially after the restrictions on travel brought about by the coronavirus crisis, Finland and Estonia are now closer than ever: a record number of vessels is shuttling between the two countries, and people can now travel to such destinations, as Tallinn, Muuga and everyone’s favorite Saaremaa, as new departures Turku and…
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…