Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC (AZAL) intends to fly two million passengers till late 2016, Eldar Hajiyev, AZAL vice-president, said. “AZAL transported 1.7 million passengers in 2014, 1.8 million in 2015”, he added. Hajiyev added that at present, AZAL fleet consisted of 23 aircraft and the number of aircraft was expected to be increased by 12 in…
Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC (AZAL) will increase the number of regular flights from Baku to Moscow. Two flights will be carried out daily from the Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Moscow Vnukovo airport from March 2017. The corresponding agreement was signed by AZAL Vice-President Eldar Hajiyev and Vnukovo airport Director General Vasily Alexandrov in Moscow on…
A strategy of a sustainable multimodal transport corridor from Europe to China was suggested by the Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich at the UN Global Sustainable Transport Conference in Ashgabat. At the plenary session Mikhail Myasnikovich suggested a complex development strategy for a sustainable multimodal…
Turkmenistan has joined the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network, Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network, as well as the Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports, the country’s Oil and Gas Complex said in a message. Meanwhile, the country has joined the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, according to…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) has expanded its fleet with another Boeing 737-800 NG. According to the press service of the company, the delivery of another airplane was the final stage of the program of the fleet expansion and improving in 2016. The Boeing 737-800 NG produced in 2009 with a passenger capacity of 186…
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC considers it necessary to organize a meeting of working groups to analyze and evaluate the dispatch of test container trains from Mumbai to Russia via Iran and Azerbaijan, Javid Gurbanov, head of the Azerbaijani Railways CJSC, said. “Several test containers were sent from Mumbai to Russia in October. This was the first…
The Azerbaijani government is ready to assist all participants of the international North-South transport corridor in every way possible, Sahil Babayev, Azerbaijan’s deputy economy minister, said. “Azerbaijan, being a member of such multimodal projects as North-South and West-East transport corridors, sees itself as a regional hub. Logistics and infrastructure development is necessary for development of…