Estonia: Saaremaa bridge advocates meet with Chinese business executives

Representatives of the Chinese state-owned construction company China Construction Communication Engineering Group visited the island of Muhu, where they were familiarized with the plans of a local group of businessmen to build a bridge between Muhu and Saaremaa and the Estonian mainland. The representatives affirmed their company’s readiness to participate in the bridge project. Former…

Lithuania: tender to rebuild Renge section announced

Lithuania’s state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) has called a tender to rebuild the Mazeikiai-Renge railway section dismantled a decade ago. The section was used by the Mazeikiai-based oil processing company Orlen Lietuva, owned by Poland’s Orlen, to transport its oil products to Latvia. According to information on Lithuania’s central public procurement website, the…

Estonia: Uber prices up in Tallinn

Whilst ride-sharing service Uber has hiked its prices at least in Tallinn, taxi-hailing app Taxify has announced that it is not planning to follow suit and that its pricing policy will remain as it is for the foreseeable future. “Taxify is not planning any changes in pricing in the near future,” Marek Unt, head of…