Azerbaijan Railways CJSC plans to start laying rail lines in mid-August within construction of a railway section from Azerbaijan’s Astara station to the border with Iran as part of the North-South transportation corridor, Nadir Azmammadov, spokesperson for Azerbaijan Railways, said. The North-South transportation corridor is meant to connect northern Europe with South-Eastern Asia. It will…
New ferries will be launched for freight traffic between Azerbaijan’s Baku International Sea Trade Port in Alat and Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port, which is being built, said a message from the CJSC Baku International Sea Trade Port. The message said that the head of the Baku International Sea Trade Port Taleh Ziyadov held a meeting with…
In January-July JSC Rosterminalugol (port Ust-Luga, Leningrad Region) handled 9.6 million tons of coal, which is nearly the same as in 7M’15, says the company. In July, the company handled 1.7 million tons of export coal, up by 6% YoY. Coal intended for exports to the Netherlands (ARA ports), Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Turkey,…
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will lobby for a change in the route of the gas pipeline Power of Siberia-2 in order to preserve the UNESCO World Heritage Site Golden Mountains of Altai, WWF Russia’s extractive industry environmental policy officer Alexey Knizhnikov said. In 2015, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation…
Grain market participants are strongly interested in developing grain handling facilities in large ports and building their own logistic chains. From this viewpoint, Ukrainian grain handling segment is considered to be the most investment attractive and promising for investing. Three new grain-handling terminals were put into operation in Ukrainian seaports last season, which resulted in…
Tajikistan and Iran are considering the possibility of increasing the number of flights on the Dushanbe-Tehran air route. Head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) has allowed Iranian airlines to increase flights to destination of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Ali Abedzadeh and Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Iran Nematullo Emomzoda reportedly discussed this issue on July 28. They, in…
The World Bank will lend $250 million to Belarus for the reconstruction of the M6 Minsk-Grodno motorway. World Bank Country Manager for Belarus Young Chul Kim made the statement during the solemn ceremony held on July 29, to start the reconstruction of the M6 Minsk-Grodno motorway. Young Chul Kim mentioned that the reconstruction of the…