Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated Turkmen railway workers on putting a locomotive depot into operation in Bereket city, Balkan region. A locomotive depot has been built along the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway commissioned in December 2014. Railway transport is one of the most important segments of the Turkmen national economy. Big international projects have been implemented, railway…
Latvian Transport Ministry is currently engaged in reviewing specific offers for attraction of investors for airBaltic. A full privatization of the company is not out of the question, says the ministry’s state secretary Kaspars Ozolins. He says attraction of an investor is the main challenge at the moment. “We have been very productive lately. The…
Ukrainian and Polish Infrastructure Ministers Volodymyr Omelyan and Andrzej Adamczyk have signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of an international infrastructure project – the construction of the Via Carpatia transport corridor. The document was signed in Przemysl on October 22 in the presence of Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy and Marshal of the…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman says that the quality of railway services to city of Mariupol will be improved. “As to the transport connection with Mariupol, I fully agree that railway services are in poor conditions there. So, the railway authorities have already been instructed to modernize the rolling stock and improve the transport…
Compared to a year ago, the number of passengers traveling through Tartu Airport has decreased by 15%, most likely because of the late departures. While a year ago the news was good and passenger numbers headed towards 3,000 a month, this year’s results don’t look as promising. Just over 2,400 people flew out of Tartu…
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft has transported generators and transformers to Puerto Rico where thousands of people were left without electricity because of a hurricane. The Americans, who provided equipment, admitted they would not have been able to do this without the Ukrainian plane. In particular, a representative of the U.S. shipping company says there…
The revenue of the state-owned port company Port of Tallinn amounted to EUR 99.1 million in January-September, up by 29% YoY. Freight handled by Port of Tallinn during the period amounted to 14.3 million tons, and passengers numbered 8.2 million. The increase in revenue was mainly a result of the addition of ferry services to…