In January-June the Freeport of Riga handled 17,512,200 tons of cargo, down by 4.1% YoY. Coal transshipment climbed by 7.4%, to 6,398,600 tons, wood pellets by 13.4%, 353,000 tons, oil products dropped by 31.8%, to 3,270,400 tons, ore by 9.2%, to 165,400 tons. The port’s container throughput grew by 14%, to 208,107 TEUs. Passenger turnover…
Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in January-June climbed by 30% YoY, to 3,272,900 tons, the port authority says. In the reporting period, transshipment of coal surged 4.6-fold, to 780,400 tons, wood pellets – 1.4-fold, to 153,700 tons, construction materials – by 6.9%, to 270,200 tons, oil products – by 55.7%, to 219,400…
Ryanair (Ireland), the largest European low-cost air carrier, has stopped the sale of tickets for flights to Kyiv and Lviv. This is evidenced by the ticket sales system on the airline’s website. There are no official statements of the company on the website, however it is impossible to purchase tickets for Ukrainian flights. As reported,…
CEO of Ukraine’s largest state-owned international airport Boryspil Pavlo Ryabikin says that signing contract with Europe’s largest low-cost carrier Ryanair will inflict UAH 2 billion, or $77 million, annual losses. “We determine that our risk zone is about UAH 2 billion of lost revenue, and this is in conditions when we have to invest UAH…
In January-June the port of Ventspils handled 12.4 million tons of cargo, up by 23% YoY. According to the port authority, transshipment of Ro-Ro cargo grew by 22%. In the reporting period, Kalija parks handled 175,000 tons. The number of passenger carried by Ventspils- Nynashamn line grew by 30%, to 21,700 passengers. Ventspils port is…
A new freight train will connect eastern China’s Jiangxi Province and Uzbekistan. The train loaded with steel coils, garments and daily items, valued at $1.8 million, departed from Chinese city Ganzhou on July 7 and is expected to arrive in Tashkent 12 days later. This train is a part of China-Europe railway route. More than…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to provide funding for the construction of Galagayin-Osmanli-Chol Beshdali-Zalgaraagach-Chol Agamammadli-Azadkend-Mugan Ganjali road in Sabirabad. Under the presidential order, 14.4 million manats is allocated from the state budget for the construction of the road connecting 15 residential settlements with a total population of 41,000 people. (Trend/Business World Magazine)