The sub-surface metro circle line being built in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent will have a total length of 52.1 kilometers, the press service of the country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said in a message. Mirziyoyev reviewed the progress of the metro line’s construction, being at the initial stage, according to the message. It was decided to lay 50.5…
A new China-Europe freight train route was launched on October 29 in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The first train, carrying oil drilling equipment is bound for Poltava via Kazakhstan and Russia. This is the first cargo train linking Xinjiang with Ukraine. The new route will cut the transportation time from…
A ticket price increase for Elron trains is inevitable because the wages of the company’s employees need to be increased, among other things, Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson (Center) said. “Elron’s ticket prices have been unchanged for several years now, whereas the overall price rise during the same period has reached almost…
Turkish Airlines will start performing regular flights en route Istanbul-Samarkand from March 16, 2018. This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a joint press conference with his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The opening of the new flight will further bring the fraternal peoples of the two countries closer, according to the Turkish…
Starting from October 29, all departure flights of the low-cost Buta Airways from Baku will be carried out through the North entrance of Terminal 2 of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport. Buta Airways plans to carry out arrival flights to Terminal 1 as before. Terminal 2 meets all international requirements on the operation of civil…
The public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia would upgrade around 500 sleeping cars by the end of 2018, which is almost one sixth of the operating fleet, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said at a government meeting. “By the end of this year Ukrzaliznytsia seeks to upgrade 188 passenger cars. Next year it is planned…
The public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia in 2018 seeks to build 4,000 gondola cars and around 200 fitting platforms at own production facilities – Paniutyne, Stryi and Darnytsia car repair plants. Head of the car department at Ukrzaliznytsia Oleh Motin gave the information at the international conference “Car Building & Rolling Stock Repair in Ukraine” in…