German Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide (Fraport) and its consortium partners at Russia’s Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg have finalised an agreement to sell part of their shares in Thalita Trading to Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). Thalita is the parent company of Northern Capital Gateway LLC consortium, which has the 30-year concession for operating Pulkovo Airport…
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) transported 1.17 million passengers in the first half of 2016, the press service of the Uzbek airline said. The airline noted that it carried our 10,671 flights in January-June. The average passenger load to one flight rose compared to the same period of 2015 and made up 111 passengers. Number…
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) will start exploitation of the first airplane Boeing 787 Dreamliner from September. According to the airline, the company holds preparation to exploitation of two airplanes of Boeing 787 Dreamliner model, first of which will arrive in Uzbekistan in August. Dreamliner will be a gift for the anniversary of Uzbekistan’s Independence.…
In January-June LLC “Multipurpose Reloading Complex” (MRC) in port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) handled 1.98 million tons of cargo, down by 3% YoY. The result was caused by the decrease of coal exports by the company’s key clients amid the foreign market situation. In the reported period, coal transshipment fell by 6% to 1.83 million…
Reconstruction of overpass, passing Tarraqiyot street, will be completed soon in Tashkent, Uzbekistan Temir Yollari (Uzbekistan Railways) said in a statement. The company said that soon new overpass would be commissioned for exploitation. Uzbek company underlined that reconstruction of the road overpass, passing Taraqqiyot street, would be completed soon and the movement would be opened…
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR continues to pump oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline as scheduled. “Pumping of August volumes of oil started this morning (August 1), and we haven’t received any information on its suspension so far”, the company said. “Maybe at some stage the transportation will stop for a while, but the pumping is…
In January-July the network of Russian Railways loaded 703.9 million tons, up by 1.8% YoY, the company’s press center says. In the reported period the railways shipped the following goods: coal – 187.7 million tons (up by 3.8% YoY); coke – 6.6 million tons (+1.5%); crude and oil products – 136.5 million tons (-7.8%); iron…