PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia will launch one more Intercity high-speed train that will operate between Kyiv and Kherson, according to the company’s press service. “Today we are recording an increase in passenger flow to Kherson, so we are considering the issue of launching one more high-speed train in this direction. Thus, until the end of the year…
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved $60 million to co-finance the construction of the 9-km long Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, which forms a part of the North-South corridor. The Roads Department of Georgia reports that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has already allocated $415 million for the construction of the Kvesheti-Kobi road and…
The Klaipeda port will invest in infrastructure to attract freight from Belarus, Vidmantas Paukste, Director for Infrastructure, Acting Director General of the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority, declared at a Belarusian-Lithuanian transport forum. He remarked the Klaipeda port was one of the top 5 ports in the Baltic Sea in terms of freight turnover. The indicator…
Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Vladyslav Krykliy has stated that transport links with the occupied Crimea are not restored. “At the instruction of the President of Ukraine, the construction of the Chonhar and Kalanchak entry-exit checkpoints on Ukrainian administrative border with Crimea is nearing completion. Near the checkpoints, the stations are being equipped from which Ukrainian…
According to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the nearest future the northern Norwegian port of Narvik may become an important part of the Trans-Eurasian transit-transport corridor. This has been discussed in the city of Narvik during a meeting between Yerkin Akhinzhanov, Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Norway, governor of the city Rune Edvardsen and Rune Arnoy,…
On August 27 the commission for granting rights to the operation of air routes under the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine allowed the Ukrainian airline SkyUp to perform flights to the capitals of Sri Lanka and Israel. As the press service of the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine reports, SkyUp airline was granted the right…
For Latvian train company AS Pasazieru vilciens to buy 32 new electric trains, a contract with the Czech manufacturer Skoda vagonka has entered into force when the latter submitted a collateral security for the implementation of the contract, said a representative of the Latvian firm. Agnese Licite from Pasazieru vilciens said that now Skoda vagonka…