Estonian state-owned cargo rail operator AS EVR Cargo and railway worker and railroad engineer trade unions have signed a one-year extension of their collective agreement. “I thank trade union chairmen Oleg Tsubarov and Raivo Romm as well as representatives for their contributions to the success of collective agreement extension talks,” EVR Cargo CEO Raul Toomsalu…
The Road Fund started working in Ukraine on January 1. About UAH 47 billion will be allocated to Ukrainian roads in 2018. “The automobile roads will for the first time receive the government-guaranteed funding. This year, almost UAH 33 billion will be allocated apart from separate additional financing of a number of key highways in…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash is considering the possibility of selling electric buses to Tehran. This possibility and other matters of cooperation were discussed as Minsk Mayor Andrei Shorets met with Ambassador of Iran Mostafa Oveisi in Minsk, the press service of the Minsk City Executive Committee reported. Minsk and Tehran are sister cities.…
Iranian Consul General to Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Mansour Airom has expressed hope that re-launching the Mashhad-Nakhchivan train will help boost tourism in the neighboring countries over the next year. Iranian and Azerbaijani railways officials are making efforts to re-launch the Mashhad-Nakhchivan train in the early days of January 2018, the envoy said. He added…
The recently signed convention with Ireland on the avoidance of double taxation shall facilitate the expanding of Kazakhstan’s flag carrier’s route network. This was announced by the country’s Deputy Minister of Finance Kanat Baedilov during the meeting of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Senate on December 26. The meeting discussed the draft law…
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air intends to launch new London-Lviv flights from May 1, 2018, not September 1 as previously announced, according to the renewed airline reservation system. The company has confirmed this information. The flights will be performed three times a week. In London, the flights will be carried out from Luton airport located…
Low-cost airline Wizz Air has postponed the launch of flights from Kyiv to Lisbon, Portugal, and Tallinn, Estonia, by two months: from April 19 to June 21, 2018. Air’s call center confirmed this information, however, it did not mention the cause behind the decision. In addition to the postponement of the launch of the new…