Zhytomyr authorities and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a loan agreement to acquire 50 new trolleybuses, Zhytomyr Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn has stated. “We have signed a loan guarantee agreement with the EBRD to purchase up to 50 new trolleybuses for Zhytomyr. At the end of May the EBRD announced a…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda in January-May grew by 8.5% YoY, to 19.77 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. In the reporting period, transshipment of general cargo grew by 13.3%, to 6.9 million tons, while liquid bulk cargo dropped by 6.9%, to 4.13 million tons, and dry bulk cargo – by…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Ukraine in 2017-2018 built more roads than in the previous decade thanks to the implementation of the government’s five-year strategy. “We built 6,800 km of roads in 2017-2018. It can be said that much less was done in the previous ten years,” he said at a government meeting. At…
Starting from June 20, operator TS Laevad is adding another ferry to their Virtsu-Kuivastu route. A total of 513 additional trips are planned, the company said. At the same time, the Road Administration announced that they were chartering additional flights from Tallinn to Kuressaare on Fridays and Sundays. TS Laevad’s Pille Sauber said on June…
Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines, whose license has been suspended by Kyiv region’s Baryshevsky District Court, says it works in usual mode. As it said on Facebook, flights are performed on schedule. To confirm this, the airline attached photos from passengers’ registration for June 12 flight PQ 0101 to Odesa. “In connection with reports on the suspension…
Ukrzaliznytsia railway operator says there is now more than a tenfold increase, to 1.6 million, in the number of passengers traveling to and from the EU by rail. Since year-start, 374,000 passengers have already traveled to EU countries and back on trains, the company press service quotes CEO Yevhen Kravtsov as saying. “The direct passenger…
FlixBus, the largest low-cost bus carrier in Europe, starts operating in Ukraine. “FlixBus, the largest bus carrier in Europe with the cheapest tickets, is already in Ukraine! Except for the United States, we are the first state where it begins to work outside the EU,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan posted on Facebook. He added…