The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG has announced that the construction of the pipeline on the territory of Albania is progressing without delays. TAP AG tweeted that 87.5% of access roads and bridges in Albania had already been upgraded. TAP’s route through Albania is approximately 215 kilometers onshore and 37 km offshore in the Albanian…
On August 1-7, Passenger Port Saint Petersburg handled 13 cruise ships with a total of 16,100 passengers on board, the port manager Marine Facade PLC said. The overall stopover time was 23 vessel/day with 113,864 passenger operations. The services provided included: potable water supply – 3770 cbm; collection / disposal of 200 cbm of waste…
The Kerch Strait ferry line on August 1-7, transported 74,000 cars, 9,000 trucks and 333,000 passengers, the Russian Transport Ministry said. Passenger traffic on the line increased by 28% from the seven-month period in 2015, the number of transported passenger cars – by 27%, of trucks – by 65%. In the reporting period 37,254 passengers…
Russian Railways is interested in taking part in implementation of the Rasht-Astara railway project of Azerbaijan and Iran, First Vice President of Russian Railways Alexander Misharin said. “Russian Railways has repeatedly expressed interest – including at my recent meeting with the Iranian Railways deputy head Ahmad Khodaei – to participate in implementation of the project…
Prime Minister Karim Massimov has familiarized with the progress of construction of a bridge across the Irtysh River during his working trip to Pavlodar region. The project was launched under the Nurly Zhol program and is planned to be commissioned in December 2016. The project aims at construction of the largest bridge in Central Asia,…
ERU Trading (a subsidiary of Energy Resources of Ukraine) jointly with Poland’s national oil and gas company PGNiG have started natural gas supplies from Poland to Ukraine, ERU Trading has said. “ERU Trading and PGNiG made first natural gas supplies from Poland to Ukraine to industrial consumers on the domestic market”, the company’s press service…
In January-June Belarusian Railways increased the volume of container transportation in the Chinese direction 2.5 times YoY, Alexander Yevsyuk, First Deputy Head of the Freight Operations and Foreign Economic Operations Service of Belarusian Railways, reported. “The Chinese direction is the most promising transit one. We participate in the implementation of the Chinese initiative aimed at…