A passenger train will be launched between Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan and Iran’s Mashhad before late November, Javid Gurbanov, head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, reported. Gurbanov said the train would start running either on November 27 or November 30. The Nakhchivan-Julfa-Tabriz-Tehran-Mashhad passenger train will run twice a week. Renewed cars will be used for the trips. (Trend/Business…
Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) announced a new campaign for flights on the route from Baku to Tel Aviv. When buying from December 1 to 20, an air ticket for the flights on Baku-Tel-Aviv-Baku route in the period from January 10 to March 10, 2017 will cost 299 euro. The cost includes all taxes and fees. The…
The Infrastructure Ministry is in talks with the global operator Hutchison Ports, which is ready to enter one of Ukraine’s biggest ports, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said. According to him, a bill on concession is being drafted now, which is to become a universal law for all the sectors of this industry. Work has been…
The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) intends to build a new road, which will connect the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway with the Hungarian road M-3 Budapest-Nyiregyhaza. According to the press service of the agency, the corresponding decision was made following a joint review of infrastructure on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. “This will allow combining…
Port of Riga said October was the most successful month of the year in regards of cargo turnover, as well as the most successful October in the port’s history. The monthly cargo turnover at the port reached 3.54 million tons, up by 18% MoM and by 7% YoY. The largest contribution to the growth of…
In January-October transportation of passengers by water transport in Ukraine totaled 400,000 passengers (-22.4%, YoY). According to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, total passenger turnover in Ukraine fell by 6.6% to 4.02 million passengers. In 2015, water transport of Ukraine carried 0.6 million passengers (-3.3%, YoY). (Portnews/Business World Magazine)
In January-October water transport of Ukraine carried 5.5 million tons of cargo (-0.2%, YoY), says State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Cargo turnover decreased by 28% to 3,279.1 million ton-km. The increase was registered in all transport sectors, except the railway transport (down by 1.3% to 285 million tons). All types of transport carried 511.5 million…