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…
Until the end of August, the third phase of the reconstruction of Suusamyr – Talas – Taraz highway will have been completed, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan informed. According to it, the second layer of asphalt is being laid from 75th to 105th km of the road. The company “Chakyr Yapy Sanayiwe…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, intends to launch long-haul flights to India and Canada in summer 2018. According to the press service of the company, the matter concerns flights to Delhi and Toronto to be performed four and three times a week respectively. As reported, the commission of the State…