Centralized public transport control service is planned to be created in Bishkek, Vice Mayor of the city Maxim Sitnikov declared. According to him, in the future, it is planned to introduce an e-ticketing system and install GPS trackers in the municipal transport. It is assumed that at first the service will coordinate the work of…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says 6,500 km of roads have been repaired and/or built across the country over the past three years. “I have repeatedly said that we will make good roads in Ukraine. Over the past three years, about 6,500 km of roads have been repaired and built. Noteworthy, 900 km in 2016,…
The launch of a Hyperloop high-speed train project in Ukraine can take place in the next five to ten years, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said. “We are following the progress under Hyperloop technology. For Ukraine this is a prospect for the next five or maximum ten years,” Omelyan said. In June the Ukrainian…
About 200 yellow minibuses and 100 buses have failed inspections and are banned from use on roads, announces Transport Department of Tbilisi City Hall. At present there are 105 lines for buses and 190 minibus lines in Tbilisi for 1,800 minibuses and 540 buses. The Transport Department announced that the number of minibuses might be…
All takeoffs and departures from the airports of Kyrgyzstan are considered dangerous, Gulzada Ibraimova, the head of the Transport Safety Control Department of the State Environmental and Technical Safety Inspectorate, said at a round table discussion. According to her, not a single airport in Kyrgyzstan meets the standards of the Land Code of the Kyrgyz…
About $60 billion is required to implement Ukraine’s transport strategy until 2030, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said. “It will cost about $60 billion until 2030. It is already clear that more than half of this amount will come from the state budget, at the expense of the Road Fund, Ukrzaliznytsia, the Sea Ports…
Listed Estonian shipper AS Tallink Grupp has signed an agreement with Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) for the construction of a new shuttle ferry. Tallink and RMC signed an agreement of intent according to which Tallink intended to order a new passenger ferry for its Tallinn-Helsinki route. The new vessel, which is to be built at…