Ukraine: gas transit up in August 2016

The scheduled repair of Nord Stream for the period from August 9 through August 17 has resulted in a rise in Russian gas transit across the Ukrainian gas transport system to Europe by 20%, spokesman of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “Due to repair of Nord Stream gas pumping by Ukraine to…

Russia: airline passenger traffic down in H1 2016

Russian airlines carried 38.1 million passengers in the first half of 2016, down by 7.6% YoY. International traffic was down by 26.8%, to 13.4 million passengers YoY. Domestic traffic was up by 7.7%, to 24.7 million, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) reported. In June, international traffic dropped by 30.5%, to 3.1 million, while domestic…

Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan to take steps for North-South corridor’s development

Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan will take measures on the development of transportation infrastructure, including the North-South international transportation corridor, the draft declaration says. “The sides intend to support efforts to integrate regional transportation and communication opportunities aimed at creating an economically profitable and environmentally friendly transportation infrastructure”, says the declaration that should be approved by…

Ukraine: seaports grain cargoes shipments up in H1 2016

In January-July the Ukrainian seaports processed 19.451 million tons of grain cargoes (including 19.045 million tons of grains), up by 5.4% YoY, the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority declared. In particular, state stevedoring companies processed 1.283 million tons of grains at the berths of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (down by 34.2% YoY), private stevedoring…