Port of Tallinn as been shortlisted for the Green Port/Terminals of the Year Award by the DPC Innovation Awards 2017. The award spotlights a port or terminal that has demonstrated an active and innovative response to the preservation and promotion of wildlife, reduction in air emissions, water quality, treatment of soils/sediments, community engagement and sustainability.…
Next year, the City of Tallinn will begin testing the limited application of a self-driving bus in public transport. The self-driving bus is to be tested on the last mile, which in transportation refers to the movement of people from a transportation hub such as a bus stop to their final destination. Tallinn University of…
Four bridges have been constructed in Azerbaijani Agstafa district, Azeravtoyol OJSC reported. Three bridges were built on the Agstafa-Poylu-Georgian state border highway and one bridge on the Agstafa-Poylu-Duzgishlag-Gazakh highway to ensure comfortable and safe movement of the citizens. New bridges were built across Agstafachay, Ajiderechay and Kura rivers, as well as over the railway. The…
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) has informed that the most popular international directions in October were Minsk, Dubai, Budapest, Ankara, and Warsaw. “The most popular international directions in October were Minsk (Belarus), Dubai (UAE), Budapest (Hungary), Ankara (Turkey), Warsaw (Poland). Among domestic flights, Odessa, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv are in the lead,” according to a press release…
Beginning in January, Elron will begin offering express rail service from Tallinn to Narva that will shave 25 minutes off the current travel time of about 2 hours and 40 minutes. Andrus Ossip, who met with Southern Estonian municipal leaders, said that the recently announced increase in ticket prices would be due to the addition…
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inspected the construction of a new international sea port in Turkmenbashi on the Caspian shore. The project is being implemented by Turkey’s Gap Insaat. The project is an important part of Turkmenistan’s complex industrialization, said Berdimuhamedov, adding that its implementation would create more than 2,500 jobs. It was noted that…
In the third quarter Tallink Grupp AS and its subsidiaries carried 2.9 million passengers, up by 2% YoY. The group unaudited third-quarter revenue grew by 3.3%, to EUR 282.7 million (EUR 273.6 million in Q3 2016). Unaudited EBITDA improved by 12.3%, to EUR 75.4 million (EUR 67.1 million) and unaudited net profit increased by 11.7%,…