The construction of the subway to the Vynohradar residential district in Kyiv is to be completed by 2021. This is stipulated by the contract signed by Kyiv Metropoliten and the winner of the tender on the ProZorro public e-procurement system, PJSC Kyivmetrobud, for the extension of the Syretsko-Pecherska subway line, Kyiv Metropoliten’s press service reported.…
Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said that the signing of an Agreement on Common Aviation Area (CAA), or “Open Skies”, with the European Commission may take place in the first half of the next year. He stated this at a joint press conference with Chief Commercial Officer at Ryanair Holdings PLC, David O’Brien. “We are…
Ukraine’s state-run railways operator, JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, says five more locomotives built by U.S. GE Transportation’s Pennsylvania-based plant have arrived at Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk. As was the case with 15 previously delivered U.S. locomotives, the five would be sent to Ukraine’s Kremenchuk-based PJSC Kryukivsky Railway Car Building Works for final assembly. “Under the contract, the…
Following an announcement that it was shutting down three regular routes from Tallinn, Estonian national airline Nordic Aviation Group AS, operating under the Nordica brand, announced that it would be cutting eight routes from the Estonian capital next summer. While Nordica flew to 21 destinations this summer, beginning next summer, the flag-carrier airline will operate…
The Armenian government will provide more than AMD 191 million (some $400,000) to the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies for the renovation of the road connecting Yerevan to the Iranian border. In particular, 448 km section will be repaired. Besides, the government will also give more than AMD 60 million ($124,000) for the…
The draft state budget for 2019 provides for UAH 1 billion for the construction of the Mykolaiv-Kropyvnytskyi highway, according to Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan. “In addition, the Road Fund will allocate almost UAH 1 billion for the roads of both regional and state importance in Mykolaiv region,” the minister said during his working visit to…
On November 14 the first train arrived in Mukachevo from Budapest. The train is one of those expected to shortly start running along the new route on a regular basis. So far, this is only a dry run along the newly built standard gauge line, the Center for Transport Strategies reported. The train was operated…