During the meeting with Belarusian Minister of Transport and Communications Anatoly Sivak and Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis discussed the successfully operating chain of Belarusian cargo transportation using the services provided by the Lithuanian Railways and Klaipeda State Seaport, as well as the outlook of bilateral cooperation in developing the necessary transport…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $14.27 million loan agreement with the government of Georgia to upgrade and improve the Tbilisi metro, which currently benefits over 300,000 commuters daily. “The project will help meet the growing demand for reliable, safe, and efficient sustainable transport – a high priority of the government,” said Yesim…
The plans for the development of rail transport in Uzbekistan include the transportation of foreign trade goods via the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway with an opportunity to reach the ports as part of the pilot program. It is planned to participate in the creation of the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey-EU countries transit corridor by determining the volumes of transportation of…
Romania’s Blue Air seeks to launch a flight between Lviv and Brno (the Czech Republic). Head of Lviv international airport Tetiana Romanovska gave the information at a press conference of Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan to present financial results in Kyiv. She recalled that in November Wizz Air announced the launch of some flights from…
Darnytsia wagon repair plant (Kyiv), a branch of the public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia, has annulled nine tenders to buy 2,000 drop bottom gondola cars of general use at the expected price of around UAH 1.2 million (VAT included) per car. According to information on the ProZorro e-procurement portal, the tenders were annulled, as less than…
Ukrainian airlines in January-November increased passenger traffic by 29.6% compared to the corresponding period of 2016, to 9.826 million people. According to the data from the State Aviation Service of Ukraine, during the reporting period Ukrainian airlines increased international passenger traffic by 30.8%, to 8.967 million people. Passenger traffic through the airports of Ukraine rose…
Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan says that ongoing negotiations with the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair are coming to an end, as a new agreement with Boryspil Internarial Airport has been reached. “I believe that Ryanair will enter the Ukrainian market, our negotiations are coming to an end. We have managed to find a consensus with Boryspil…