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…
Antonov Airlines has opened its office in Houston, Texas, the United States, the company has reported in its official blog. “Antonov Airlines, which has recently established a USA base in Houston, Texas, as part of ongoing global expansion, has transported an outsized communications satellite for Orbital ATK,” reads the report. It notes that one of…
Estonia hasn’t fallen behind in its preparations for the Rail Baltica project’s next phase, CEO of Rail Baltic Estonia, Riia Sillave, declared. This year the marking-out of the railway’s route as well as first negotiations with land owners are on the agenda. Rail Baltica’s next phase started on January 23 with the chief executives of…
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project has changed the transport map of Georgia, Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said. He made the remarks addressing the ‘Strategic Outlook: Eurasia’ panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23. Kvirikashvili said that the international projects being implemented and the geographic location of Georgia formed the basis and…
Kyiv Metropoliten has announced a tender for the construction of a section of the Syretsko-Pecherska metro line from the Syrets station to the Vynohradar residential area. According to the announcement in the ProZorro system, it is planned to build a section with an electric depot in Podilsky district (from the Syrets station to the Prospekt…