In January-September the Freeport of Riga handled 25,490,700 tons of cargo, down by 5.1% YoY. As the port authority reported, coal transshipment climbed by 2.5%, to 9,331,400 tons, oil products dropped by 33.4%, to 4,320,600 tons, wood pellets went up by 13.5%, to 474,100 tons, ore – by 31.1%, to 365,200 tons. The port’s container…
Roman Sklyar, the Kazakh Vice Minister of Investment and Development, has commented on the recent Antonov An-28 plane crash in Almaty region. According to Sklyar, the An-28 aircraft can be banned from flying in Kazakhstan. “We will wait for the results of the plane crash investigation, and, then, we will make the decision. It (the…
More than 266,000 passengers used the services of Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport in September, up by 24% YoY. The number of passengers served by the airport during the first nine months of the year was greater by more than 300,000, or by 18%, than during the same period last year. Tallinn Airport crossed the 2…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed dissatisfaction at a meeting of the government, pointing to low rates of cargo transportation by the State Service of Maritime and River Transportation. Berdimuhamedov noted that Turkmenistan’s transport system had considerable reserves of production capacity, allowing it to ensure increasing volumes of transportation of goods and passengers, including those traveling…
In January-September seaports of Ukraine handled 98 million tons of cargo, up by 1.3% YoY, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Transshipment of export cargo totaled 74.4 million tons (+2.3%), including 29 million tons of grain (+11.2%), 15.5 million tons of ore (-10.4%), 10.1 million tons of mining and metal products (-19.1%) and…
Due to increased demand, TS Laevad, the Port of Tallinn subsidiary which operates ferry routes connecting Saaremaa and Hiiumaa to the Estonian mainland, will operate its Virtsu-Kuivastu route with three large ferries on October 15, bringing in the Tiiu to increase capacity on the route that day. On October 15, the Tiiu will serve the…
The railway companies of Belarus and Estonia are set to increase bilateral cargo transportation operations, the press service of the Belarusian Railways reported. The heads of the Belarusian Railways and the Estonian Railways met in Minsk to discuss cargo transportation on the Belarus-Estonia route and their prospects. In January-August the volume of transported cargo exceeded…