The total amount of funds that have already been allocated for carrying out road works in Ukraine in 2017 exceeded UAH 20 billion, while the length of repaired roads exceeds 750 kilometers, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has said. In addition, he said patch work had been done on 40,000 km of roads. According…
The European Commission has approved Riga’s tramway infrastructure development project. As part of this project, it is planned to build the 3.5 km Skanstes tramline, which will cost EUR 97.4 million, as reported by Rigas satiksme representative Viktors Zakis. The project involves the construction of a 3.6-km tramline on Pernavas Street – Sencu Street –…
Uzbekistan’s former Deputy Prime Minister Ulugbek Rozukulov has been appointed the director general of the country’s national airline Uzbekistan Airways, a source in the airline’s management reported on August 24. Uzbekistan Airways was earlier headed by Valeriy Tyan. Uzbekistan Airways is a flag carrier airline in Uzbekistan and is wholly owned by the state. It…
Baltic Association – Transport and Logisics President Inga Antane describes the situation with Latvia’s transit industry as tragic. Cargo volume decline has been continuing since 2012. Antane also mentions that, looking at the recent past, 2016 was one of the worst in Latvia’s transit history. It should be added that from April onward there was…
In the updated draft financial plan for 2017, PJSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” expects that in October cargo transportation rates will be indexed by 22.5%. The, acting head of Ukrainian Railways Ievgeniy Kravtsov hopes that it will be possible to switch to annual change in tariffs depending on the index of industrial prices. In his opinion, this will…
In 2017, 755 km of automobile roads have been repaired in Ukraine, the Infrastructure Ministry reports. “As of August 18, medium repairs of 756 km of automobile roads have been carried out within current financing, according to the data provided by Ukravtodor (the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine),” reads the report. The ministry…
This year, UAH 20 billion should be spent on the construction of roads, and UAH 30 billion next year, president Petro Poroshenko said. “We set a task to allocate UAH 20 billion for the construction of roads this year, and UAH 30 billion in the next year. This is the dynamics that I want to…