AS Tallink Grupp says it is going to carry out rerouting of cruise ferries on 2 routes, placing Baltic Queen from Tallinn-Helsinki to Tallinn-Stockholm route and Romantika to Riga-Stockholm route. Tallinn-Helsinki cruise service will be operated by the upgraded Silja Europa. According to Margus Hunt, the Sales and Marketing Director of AS Tallink Grupp, the…
In January-August the Freeport of Riga handled 23,872,900 tons of cargo (down by 10.8% YoY). Coal transshipment fell by 19.2% to 7,963,300 tons, oil products – by 18.5% to 5,916,500 tons, wood pellets – by 10% to 387,000 t, ore grew by 79.4% to 269,100 tons. The port’s container throughput climbed by 4.7% to 248,359…
In January-August the Port of Tallinn handled 13.97 million tons of cargo (down by 8.2% YoY). According to the Port Authorities, transshipment of containers and liquid bulk cargo dropped by 5.5% (131,172 TEUs) and 22% (7.04 million tons) accordingly. Transshipment of loose bulk cargo increased by 35.5% (2.40 million tons), Ro-Ro – by 5% (2.99…
Ukrainian airlines saw a 25.5% rise in passenger transportation in January-August YoY, to 5.284 million people, according to the State Aviation Service of Ukraine. International routes usage grew by 25.4%, to 4.771 million people. Passenger flow via Ukrainian airports rose by 16.2%, reaching 8.288 million. Passenger flow on international flights grew by 14.8%, to 7.244…
In January-August the grain terminal JSC Ak Biday Terminal, the subsidiary of the National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC, exported 392.6 thousand tons of grains through its grain terminal in the Aktau port, the press-service of Food Contract Corporation declared. According to the announcement, in the same period of 2015 the shipped volumes exceeded 209…
Stena Line opens a new Bordershop in Ventspils. It is another step in Stena Line strategy to offer its customers value for money products. Bordershops, selling cheap alcohol products, is a very attractive concept for Swedish travelers and the aim is to increase the interest for them to visit Latvia. “Ventspils-Nynashamn is an important route…
State unitary enterprise “Tajik Railways” has acquired a modern long-haul locomotive from Kazakhstan. It is the fifth locomotive to be purchased in Kazakhstan by the railroad of Tajikistan in recent years. In addition, in Estonia sold a diesel train, equipped with German engine, consisting of six cars. Two cars of diesel trains have 68 seats…