In April, Latvian airline airBaltic carried 287,560 passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. This is a 26% increase when compared with last year. The airline carried a total of 876,328 passengers in the first four months of 2017. In April, the airline performed 4,043 flights, up by 9% YoY,…
The strategy of development of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia for 2017-2021 provides for a comprehensive modernization of rolling stock and infrastructure, company chairman Wojciech Balczun has said. “In the next five years we plan to invest UAH 130-150 billion,” he said at a press conference in Kharkiv. According to him, in particular, it is planned to upgrade…
Russia’s Yamal Airlines is expected to start operating flights to Tajikistan from Zhukovsky Airport from July 1. According to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) of Tajikistan, Yamal Airlines will conduct three weekly flights to Dushanbe and three weekly flights to Khujand. An official source at a MoT said that they had coordinated the issue of…
Railway freight traffic in Ukraine from 2011 to 2016 decreased by 27%, Deputy Director General of state enterprise Ukrpromzovnishekspertyza Serhiy Povazhniuk has said. According to him, the volume of rail freight traffic began declining in 2012 due to the stagnation of industry. The rate of decline accelerated in 2014-2015 after the annexation of Crimea and…
CEO of Ukraine’s state-owned railways operator Ukrzaliznytsia Wojciech Balczun has announced his company will repair railway tracks in another country for the first time in its history. “Our railwaymen with their equipment have been invited to Poland to perform a cycle of operations at the Medyka station. To this end, Ukrzaliznytsia’s branch – the Center…
In January-April “Seaport” customs point has transferred KZT 2.323 billion to the national budget as payments and taxes. In fact, treasury reimbursement is one of the main functions of the customs service. In this respect, “Seaport” as the customs point of Mangystau Region Department of State Revenues has outstripped the target. “Customs payments and tax…
Planes of Tajik air carriers tend to land at airports of neighboring countries for refueling. Passengers are indignant and refuse to travel on domestic airlines’ flights. Tajik Air and Somon Air bear losses but they can do nothing. In recent year, aviation fuel at Tajik airports has become the most expensive in the region. Tajikistan…