Azerbaijan: Aliyev Airport passenger throughput up in Q1 2018

During the first three months of 2018 Heydar Aliyev International Airport served over 897,000 passengers. This indicator exceeds the same indicator of the previous year by 15%. National air carrier Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) carried 362,000 passengers, while the national low-cost airline Buta Airways – 104,000 passengers. 768,000 passengers (85.6% of passenger traffic) accounted for international…

Estonia: TLT CEO Enno Tamm to step down

Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) board chairman Enno Tamm is to step down as soon as a new CEO for Tallinn’s transport company has been found. Tallinn Mayor Taavi Aas (Center), who conducted a meeting of the supervisory board of TLT for the last time, said that Tamm had submitted a letter of resignation, which would…

Georgia: airport passenger traffic up in Q1 2018

Georgia’s three international airports served 839,612 passengers in the first three months of 2018, up by 36% YoY. The number of passengers who took regular or charter flights in Georgia increased in all three main airports of the country: Tbilisi Shota Rustaveli International Airport, Batumi International Airport and Kutaisi David Aghmashenebeli International Airport. More specifically,…

Latvia: throughput of port Riga down in Q1 2018

In January-March the Freeport of Riga handled 8,223,200 tons of cargo, down by 11.6% YoY. Coal transshipment fell by 8.8%, to 3,189,600 tons. Transshipment of oil products dropped by 43.3%, to 1,052,100 tons, wood pellets – by 3.5%, to 214,100 tons, while transshipment of ore surged almost 2-fold, to 99,800 tons. The port’s container throughput…