In January seaports of Ukraine handled 10.8 million tons of cargo, up by 10.9% YoY, says the press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Transshipment of export cargo fell by 1.1%, to 7.8 million tons, including 1.5 million tons of metal (+21.2%), 26,300 TEUs of containerized cargo (+17%) and 3.1 million tons of grain (+1.1%).…
Kazakhstan will launch a direct flight from its Atyrau city to Frankfurt. “Kazakhstan will implement new international flights from its regions. A regular direct flight from Atyrau city to Frankfurt will be launched on March 26. The flights will be operated on an Airbus-321 aircraft. The flights schedule will include 2 flights a week on…
Laying work of new station tracks started at the Eybat cargo train station in Qaradag district of Baku, said the message of the public-relations department of Azerbaijan Railways on February 5. A surge of cargo turnover is expected after the completion of large-scale projects carried out on the railways of the country, the message notes.…
Vilnius Airport is launching a four-year, 60-million-euro major renovation of its passenger terminal to improve passenger service and increase the terminal’s capacity. “The terminal was designed to serve around 3.5 million passengers annually. This figure has already increased to 3.8 million over the past few years. This is why the decision was made to launch…
Belarusian-Swiss train factory Stadler Minsk will roll out the first train for the Minsk metro in Q3-Q4, Deputy Operations Director at the state-run enterprise Minsk Metro Andrei Mikhailovsky declared. The four-car train will have two control cars (one at each end of the unit). It will be operated on line 2 at first and then…
AS Air Baltic Corporation will launch a new summer season route between Almaty and Riga on April 29, the airline’s press service reported. The new route will provide new convenient travel opportunities for passengers from the Baltic countries and Kazakhstan to the destinations of airBaltic’s route network that covers Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and the Middle…
Seven cargo bridges are planned to be built on the territory of the Baku International Sea Trade Port (the Port of Baku) in January-March, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said. “Warehouses, additional buildings and other infrastructure facilities are also planned to be built till March,” he said. “Moreover, the operational building of the Port of…