A new railway station will be commissioned in Kazakhstan’s city of in Astana in May, Kazakh prime-minister’s website reported. Construction work at the new railway station and railway junction in Astana have been completed by 80% as of today, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy’s (Kazakh railways) said. The capacity of the railway station is envisaged at 35,000…
In January-December 2016 seaports of Ukraine handled 131.998 million tons of cargo (-8.9%), says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Transshipment of export cargo totaled 100.395 million tons (- 3.3%), imports – 16.013 million tons (- 10.8%), transit – 10.370 million tons (-34.8%), inland traffic – 5.220 million tons (- 23.7%). State stevedores under…
As technological development necessitated transportation development, Uzbekistan electrified 1700 kilometres of its railway network, putting into operation 500 kilometers in 2016 alone. Following the 2010 Presidential Resolution “On Accelerating Infrastructure, Transport and Communication Construction Development in 2011-2015” Uzbekistan electrified and commissioned the Marakand-Karshi railway section in summer 2015. This led to the launch of an…
NAC “O’zbekiston havo yo’llari” will receive four more airplanes of the new generation Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. The new contract with “Boeing” corporation was signed within the framework of modernization and unification of airpark. The press service of the air company informs that the delivery of aircraft is expected in 2019-2020. At the present time, the…
The first convoy of trucks from Kyrgyzstan to China goes along Bishkek – Kashkar – Urumqi route, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan reported. The pilot convoy of eight vehicles will reach the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in four days and will return to Kyrgyzstan. The issue of the opening…
A report on the ongoing work on the transformation of Turkmenistan’s national air carrier Turkmenistan Airlines (Turkmenhowayollary) into a stock company has been presented at the meeting of the country’s Cabinet of Ministers, the Turkmen government said. It was previously reported that a new concept of the country’s aviation activity stood as a basis of…
Visits to Georgia by foreign citizens reached 6,350,825 in 2016, up by 7.6% YoY, according to the data released by the Interior Ministry. The Interior Ministry compiles statistics based on border crossing data. Travelers entering Georgia and staying in the country for more than 24 hours are classified as “tourists”. Of the total 6.35 million…