Turkmenistan is ready for substantive negotiations on all aspects of cooperation and use of the port of Turkmenbashi, with countries in the region, which have no path to the sea, stated President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, speaking May 2 at the international forum “”The Great Silk Road” – to new frontiers of development” in Avaza. The head…
Hungary’s low-cost airline Wizz Air has opened new flights from Lviv to London Luton Airport, the press service of Lviv Regional State Administration reported. “In 2008-2009 Wizz Air operated flights to London. But as the passenger traffic was very low, this route was canceled. But the current figures show that this direction has very good…
Nordica started operating its new flight connections to Copenhagen on April 30. It will fly to Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport up to 11 times a week. “Our job as an airline is to provide quick, convenient, direct connections for Estonian air passengers to key destinations,” Toomas Uibo, Nordica’s director for marketing and communication, said. “Adding the…
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Tajikistan signed a $90 million grant agreement on April 30 for the rehabilitation of a 40-kilometer section of the Dushanbe-Bokhtar road to improve connectivity between two major cities and economic hubs in Tajikistan and enhance the safety of the country’s highway network. According to the report, the…
Ukraine has announced that it is set to begin delivery of the first trams to Egypt by July, according to a statement by the Ukrainian manufacturer Tatra-Yug. The first batch of trams will be docked in Alexandria in early June, the statement said, adding that the delivery of the trams would be completed by the…
Ukraine’s railways operator, the state-run JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, tripled investment in the first quarter of 2018, to UAH 3.869 billion ($147.5 million). “Capital investment of Ukrzaliznytsia was estimated at UAH 3.869 billion in the first quarter of 2018. The major part of funds, that is UAH 2.43 billion, accounting for almost 63%, was spent on the…
Ukraine is working on the signing of a number of international contracts in the aerospace sector, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Yuriy Brovchenko, who heads the Ukrainian delegation at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show, declared. “We are reaching the finish line in terms of signing some contracts, procedures for joining the…