In January Belarusian Railways transported 12.143 million tons of freight, up by 127.5% YoY, the company’s press service reported. Export freight reached 4.5 million tons, up by 30%. Transit freight grew by 11.6%, to 3.76 million tons. Belarusian Railways secured the loading of about 7 million tons of freight, up by 33%. Freight turnover of…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has severely reprimanded Magsat Aydogdiyev, Minister of Automobile Transport, for improper performance of duties and shortcomings in work, the Turkmen government said in its message. “The head of state pointed to the low level of measures for further modernization and improvement of transport sphere in the country and expressed his discontent…
The Estonian Maritime Administration has halted ship traffic in the part of Haapsalu Bay located south of Seasaar and east of the Rohukula-Sviby shipping lane, Maritime Administration spokesperson Priit Poiklik reported. The Estonian Road Administration has requested that, in case of appropriate weather conditions, ship traffic in the area of the planned Haapsalu-Noarootsi ice road…
2,300 rail cars of a new modification are going to be released in Pavlodar region in 2018, governor Bulat Bakauov informed. “Last year due to support of the government Kazakhstan’s Wagon-Building Company, which had been idle for two years, resumed production. As a result we increased growth of machine engineering industry 1.2-fold. This year we…
A member of Ryanair board Juliusz Komorek has confirmed plans earlier announced by Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan to launch flights from Ukraine in autumn. “This is a real date. I hope this happens,” he said, adding that changes would be made to the routes announced last year. Earlier Omelyan said that Ukraine was in…
Belkommunmash has delivered forty trolleybuses to Togliatti, which became the Belarusian company’s largest supply to Russia over the past three years. Belkommunmash won a tender to supply 40 trolleybuses of 321 Model to Togliatti. Seeking to improve the environmental situation the Russian city authorities have been actively renewing the fleet of electric transport vehicles. Many…
Uzbekistan Airways, the flag carrier of Uzbekistan, has introduced the second frequency of direct flights on the route Tashkent – New York – Tashkent. The flights will be performed starting from April 5 according to the following schedule (local time): Thursday: HY 101 Tashkent 05:45 – New York 10:00 Thursday: HY 102 New York 12:45…