In 2017 the Freeport of Riga handled 33,674,700 tons of cargo, down by 9% YoY. According to the port authority, coal transshipment fell by 11.4%, to 11.776 million tons, transshipment of oil products totaled 5.64 million tons (-30.3%), wood pellets – 646,000 tons (+16.5%) and ore – 514,000 tons (+26.5%). The port’s container throughput grew…
Tajikistan is interested in supplying cargoes to international markets through the Caspian Sea, Tajik ambassador to Azerbaijan Soli Rustam said. Soli Rustam made the remarks at a meeting with Chairman of the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping CJSC Rauf Valiyev in Baku, the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping CJSC said in a message. The ambassador also reviewed the company’s…
In Ukraine, with a 10-year warranty, almost 200 kilometers of the Odessa-Reni route were repaired, and the rest will be put into operation in 2018. Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wrote this on his Facebook page. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
Passengers of the “unfortunate” G9-252 flight of Air Arabia finally jetted off from Astana and Almaty to Sharjah. The flight was initially scheduled to leave the airport in Astana at 04:55 a.m. on January 6 but was delayed for two days. On January 8 the passengers of the delayed flight headed to Sharjah via G9-252…
During holidays (from December 29 to January 4), 16,404 passengers were transported by trains running between Baku and Tbilisi and within Azerbaijan, Sevinj Gadirova, head of public relations department of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, declared. She noted that this figure exceeded the usual indicator 2-fold. Gadirova added that taking into account the high passenger traffic, 73…
The passenger buses en route Shymkent-Tashkent will operate on a day-to-day basis, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development said. The new route was launched on January 5. The buses will go to the destination points every hour from 6:00 am till 8:00 pm, the ministry added. The total travel time…
9 flights were delayed at Almaty airport. According to the press service of the Almaty International Airport, the reasons for the delays are as follows: flight attendant’s mistake, the late arrival of planes, and a bad weather in Semey. “For now, the vertical visibility at the International Airport of Almaty is 180 m, while the…