The Krakow-Balice Airport, in southern Poland, has serviced 7 million passengers since the start of the year and expects to handle another 2 million until the year’s end, the CEO of the airport has said. Radoslaw Wloszek said that this was the third time in airport’s history that it had exceeded the threshold of 7…
Baltic Hub celebrated handling of 20 million TEUs (20-foot containers), confirming its position as the largest container terminal in the Baltic Sea, according to the company’s release. Since its inauguration in 2007, Baltic Hub has handled more than 20 million TEUs. The transshipment of the 20-millionth container, owned by the Danish shipowner MAERSK, was reported…
Baltic colleagues will need to look for solutions and additional funding to continue Rail Baltica railway projects together, because the costs are up for everyone, not just Latvia, Minister of Transport Kaspars Briskens has said. He said he could not voice the exact estimates as to the cost of implementation of the project in Latvia.…
The network of public electric vehicle charging stations is growing in the Baltic States, and for now at least, this expansion is most rapid in Latvia. Latvia’s charging network has almost two and a half stations for every ten electric cars. Estonia has one station for every 20 cars, and Lithuania has one for every…
The airports in Burgas and Varna reported over 800,000 passengers in August, which was the strongest month of the summer season, the concessionaire “Fraport Twin Star Airport Management” JSC reported. Burgas Airport recorded an 8% increase in passengers in August compared to the same period last year. 527,000 tourists arrived. 3,344 aircraft were serviced, up…
Over 15,000 Hasidic Jews transited the territory of Moldova on September 11-13, in their pilgrimage to the Uman city, Ukraine, where they marked the Jewish New Year. In this period, special flows of processing the document of travelers pilgrims were created at the Chisinau International Airport. This allowed avoiding the overlapping of the flows of…
The Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development of the Republic of Moldova have agreed to extend the Agreement liberalising freight transport between the two countries until the end of 2025. The agreement provides for bilateral and transit road transport without special permits. The protocol…