Ukraine International Airlines received a license for transportation of dangerous goods of categories 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 from the People’s Republic of China. Thus, UIA has become one of the first out of around 50 airlines-applicants to get such a DGR license. The license gives UIA the right to transport to/from China…
According to the initial schedule for the planned Rail Baltica railway, which is expected to have been completed by 2026, high-speed trains will depart Tallinn for points south four times per day, reaching Central Riga in one hour and 42 minutes at a cost of EUR 38 per ticket. Once the railway has been completed,…
From June Kazakhstan’s Air Astana will expand its Nur-Sultan-Istanbul service from current five to six flights a week. It will fly A320 aircraft, the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee’s press service reports. Besides, from the beginning of July Turkish Airlines is set to raise its flights from Nur-Sultan to Istanbul from existing five to seven flights…
The information security management system of Air Astana JSC has been certified to be compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard. The certificate of compliance was presented to Air Astana JSC in April. After several years of ground work on policies, procedures, documents and systems the certification process started in October 2017 having contracted with Kazakhstan…
According to the consolidated interim report, the first quarter of 2019 has brought the international logistics and transport company AS Operail a net profit of EUR 2.6 million, which is twice as much as their net profit in the first quarter of 2018. Operail CEO Raul Toomsalu said that the main source of their profit…
At the end of April the Port of Riga opened the 2019 cruise season when the 300-meter cruise ship MSC Poesia entered the port. MSC Poesia is owned by the cruise line MSC and brought more than 2,500 tourists to Riga during its Baltic cruise. The 10-day cruise started in Warnemunde, Germany, and had already…
Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi is continuing to modernize its public bus fleet by introducing 90 brand new, 10-meter long diesel operated buses. There are 27 seats in the new buses, which can take up to 82 passengers in total. The buses are equipped for people with disabilities and with modern systems such as heating, air…