The next round of consultations between the foreign ministries of Turkmenistan and Romania has recently taken place in Bucharest, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. At the meeting, the sides noted the development of relations in the political and diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres. “Particular attention was paid to energy and transport issues,”…
Italy-based Ernest Airlines carried out its first flight from Orio al Serio International Airport (Milan/Bergamo) to the Ukrainian Danylo Halytskyi International Airport in Lviv with 102 passengers on board on October 20, according to Lviv airport’s press service. The plane made its return flight to Milan with 99 passengers on board, it said. Ernest Airlines…
The state-owned passenger train operator Elron sold tickets for EUR 1.1 million in September, up by 8% YoY. At 650,000 passengers, the number of people that used Elron’s connections increased by 9% as well, or by some 50,000 people. The company’s busiest routes in September this year were Tallinn-Paldiski with 116,000, Tallinn-Riisipere with 102,000, Tallinn-Aegviidu…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated Turkmen railway workers on putting a locomotive depot into operation in Bereket city, Balkan region. A locomotive depot has been built along the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway commissioned in December 2014. Railway transport is one of the most important segments of the Turkmen national economy. Big international projects have been implemented, railway…
Latvian Transport Ministry is currently engaged in reviewing specific offers for attraction of investors for airBaltic. A full privatization of the company is not out of the question, says the ministry’s state secretary Kaspars Ozolins. He says attraction of an investor is the main challenge at the moment. “We have been very productive lately. The…
Ukrainian and Polish Infrastructure Ministers Volodymyr Omelyan and Andrzej Adamczyk have signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of an international infrastructure project – the construction of the Via Carpatia transport corridor. The document was signed in Przemysl on October 22 in the presence of Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy and Marshal of the…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman says that the quality of railway services to city of Mariupol will be improved. “As to the transport connection with Mariupol, I fully agree that railway services are in poor conditions there. So, the railway authorities have already been instructed to modernize the rolling stock and improve the transport…