Tallinn Mayor Taavi Aas (Centre) has said that the proposed Reidi Road (Reidi Tee) in central Tallinn has more supporters than opponents. The new road, which is planned to service the Tallinn harbor area and is to run along the seafront towards the Russalka Monument in Kadriorg, has drawn criticism from environmentalists and others. However,…
A number of new routes between the cities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan may be launched in the near future, Minister of transport of Tajikistan Khudoer Khudoerzoda declared. A regular bus service was opened between Khujand and Tashkent in mid-May. It was also planned to open new bus routes to other cities of Uzbekistan, but this…
The passenger traffic at the Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport hit 2,045,154 passengers in January-June, up by 17% YoY, the company’s press service reports. In the past six months it also increased internal passenger flow by 12%, the airport served 1,346,578 people at large. During the period under consideration, the international airport received 798,576 of international…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda in January-June grew by 7.6% YoY, to 22.2 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Container throughput totaled 74,370 TEUs. In the reporting period the port serviced 143,180 passengers, up by 1%. The number of calls totaled 3,257 (+0.4%). The state-run Port of Klaipeda, the northernmost ice-free…
Kazakhstan has started supplying flour to Afghanistan through the new railway route, the press service of Kazakhstan Railways JSC reported. A flour-laden train has been sent from Kostanay station to Afghanistan, and the train will pass through the territory of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, according to the report. The length of the Kostanay-Bolashak-Serhetabad (Turkmenistan) route is…
In January-June seaports of Ukraine handled 63.8 million tons of cargo, down by 3.1% YoY, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. The decrease should be attributed to the fall of grain exports (-10.3%) and ore exports (-26.5%). Total transshipment of export cargo fell by 8.9%, to 46.1 million tons. The highest growth in…
Riga-Vilnius-Minsk-Kyiv train will be launched from the Ukrainian capital on September 28, Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan said at a briefing upon the plenary session of the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Lithuanian Commission on Trade-Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation, which was held in Lviv on July 17, the press service of the Infrastructure Ministry reports. “Last year’s agenda,…