Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in 2018 climbed by 24.4% YoY, to 7,537,600 tons, the Port Authority says. In the reporting period, transshipment of grain grew by 20.9%, to 3,034,400 tons, anthracite – by 22.6%, to 1.47 million tons, and construction materials – by 21.9%, to 762,400 tons, while transshipment of oil…
The Vilnius-Kaunas motorway will be turned into a highway over the next two years and will see the maximum speed increased from 110 to 130 km/h during summertime. The project is valued at around 65.6 million euros. Road safety measures as well as speed control and warning systems will be installed along the whole road…
In 2018, Ukraine’s state railways operator JSC Ukrzaliznytsia increased passenger traffic by 4 million people compared to 2017. JSC Ukrzaliznytsia transported 55.9 million passengers last year, the press service of the company reported. The increase in traffic happened due to the rational use of cars. “During the New Year and Christmas holidays, we launched about…
Uzbekistan Railways is considering the possibility of building another high-speed railway to Samarkand. “Recently, the company’s management has raised the issue of building a dedicated electrified line from Tashkent to Samarkand, which will be run only by Afrosiyob train. This will shorten the journey to about 1 hour and 20 minutes,” said the message. It…
In 2018, passenger traffic at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) increased by 51.9% YoY and amounted to 2.812 million people, the airport’s press service reports. In particular, 2.727 million passengers were carried on international routes, and 84.8 thousand passengers – on domestic routes. A total of 30,248 flights were operated in 2018, up by…
Volumes of freight traffic through the Turkmenbashi International Seaport in Turkmenistan are growing. Ships delivering construction materials from Iran are unloaded at the port berths, and the Kazakh wheat is being loaded onto Iranian cargo ships. The port provides transshipment of goods arriving for Afghanistan and in the opposite direction – to Azerbaijan and Turkey.…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that a record high number of roads was repaired in Ukraine in 2018. “The year 2018 has seen a record high number of repaired roads in Ukraine: 3,800 km of both national and local loads have been repaired thanks to the launch of the Road Fund,” he wrote on Facebook.…