Public transport in Tallinn is currently free for all registered residents of the capital city. The coalition Centre Party, however, intends to expand free public transport in Tallinn to all Estonian residents, part of a broader effort to ultimately provide free transport throughout Estonia. According to Centre Party board member Toomas Vitsut, the time has…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an Order regarding measures to construct Zardab-Garavalli road in Zardab. Under the presidential order, the Azerbaijan Highway State Agency is allocated 3.9 million manats for the construction of the road connecting six residential areas with a total population of 7,000 people. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
In December 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 811,261 passengers, down by 0.5% YoY. The number of cargo units decreased by 4.4%, to 27,076 units and the number of passenger vehicles by 3.3%, to 84,814. In the fourth quarter of the 2018 financial year (October – December) AS Tallink Grupp transported 2,251,084 passengers, down by 2.8%…
Uzbekistan is negotiating to attract Germany’s Deutsche Bahn for reforming Uzbekistan Railways. “Now we are working with Deutsche Bahn, a German state-owned company, the world’s largest railway freight carrier. We are now negotiating with them to attract their experts and consultants to develop a strategy for further activities of Uzbekistan Railways,” said Laziz Kudratov, the…
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…