Romanian TAROM airline will launch regular Bucharest-Yerevan flights twice per-week, the Zvartnots airport of the Armenian capital said. It said TAROM would further increase the frequency of flights to three-times per week. Months earlier the deal was reached between TAROM and Zvartnots airport. The airport did not specify when exactly the flights would commence. (Armenpress/Business…
In March AS Tallink Grupp transported 686,488 passengers, down by 4.1% YoY. The number of cargo units increased by 2%, to 32,524 units and the number of passenger vehicles by 5.9%, to 76,016 units, the company says in a press release. In the first quarter of the 2019 financial year (January-March) AS Tallink Grupp transported…
The Kosice-Mukachevo train has carried out its first test ride. “It was a test ride. We plan to launch the regular passenger service, as promised, already in June. It will take four hours to get from the Ukrainian railway station to Slovakia. The route is: Kosice – Cierna nad Tisou – Chop – Mukachevo,” Yevhen…
At the meeting of the Turkmen government, a proposal was made to join the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program. The possibility of connecting Turkmenistan to the regional technical assistance project “Railway Sector Development in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Countries” was discussed at the meeting. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said that the…
The French flag carrier Air France has made its inaugural flight from the capital of Paris, with Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili being among its first passengers. Air France will be carrying out regular flights between Paris and Tbilisi twice a week until October 23 with an Airbus A 320. Negotiations between Air France and the…
On March 31, Latvian airline airBaltic launched the second summer route connecting Riga and Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, airBaltic has also started flights between Riga and Lviv, Ukraine. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic, comments: “Our business strategy Destination 2025 foresees even growth of our destination network. We will continue to increase the number…
Uzbekistan Railways is implementing a new project to modernize the Andijan-Sawai-Khanabad railway and organize passenger intercity train traffic there. The project provides for the modernization of the railway section with a length of over 50 kilometers, as well as straightening parts of the track, reconstruction of artificial structures, modernization of alarm systems and telecommunications, construction…