In the first half of 2016 JSC “Container terminal Saint-Petersburg” (CTSP, member of UCL Holding) handled 288,2 thousand TEU, exceeding the last-year result by 66,5%, says CTSP. Import volume increased by 53,5% YoY, to 130,3k TEU, including 29,4k TEU of laden reefer containers. Export volume increased by 79%, compared to the same period last year,…
Tajik national air carrier, Tajik Air, plans to launch transit flights to Belgium and France. Tajik Air Director-General Khairullo Rahimov says the request for launching new flights to Europe has come from partner air companies of China, India and Pakistan. He also noted that Tajik Air had launched an air route from Dushanbe to Beijing,…
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) and Russian airline S7 Airlines signed a code-sharing agreement, envisaging execution of joint flights. According to the Russian airline, the agreement will allow increasing frequency of flights between Novosibirsk and Tashkent. S7 Airlines conducts its own flights between two cities on Sundays. Now, the airline will also conduct flights on…
Carriers complain of permits issued to drivers from China and Turkey, but not from Kyrgyzstan. They stated it at a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Roads. According to the press service, the heads of associations are interested in transportation of goods to China and Turkey. Foreign countries’ trucks give the domestic…
The construction of the rail link connecting Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa will be fully completed in September this year, Usmon Qalandarov, the deputy head of Tajik Railways, informed. According to him, rehabilitation of the 25-kilmeter Dushanbe-Vahdat section of the railway has been completed and the construction of the 40.7-kilometer Vahdat-Yovon section of the railway is…
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan (TAT) railway construction remain questionable because of uncertainty in the current situation in Afghanistan, Usmon Qalandarov, the deputy head of Tajik Railways, said. He noted that the Asian Development Bank had suspended its financial support for the construction of the TAT railway due to security risks in Afghanistan. “We are ready to begin…
Compared to the first half of 2015 cargo-by-rail shipments in Tajikistan have reportedly fallen by nearly 3% over the first six months of this year. 2.942 million tons of cargo has been shipped by rail in H1, down by 83,000 tons or 2.9% YoY, Usmon Qalandarov, the deputy head of Tajik Railways, announced. “Transit cargo…