According to the Association of Russian Seaports, in January-June grain handling in ports of the country increased by 29.4% YoY, to 12.1 MMT. In the first half of 2016 cargo turnover in Russian seaports grew by 6%, to 344.6 MMT. Such considerable increase in grain handling in Russian seaports became possible due to record export…
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) has signed the memorandum with the Center for Steel Industry Supply (Poland) to boost freight traffic across the borders of two countries. This is reported by the Ukrzaliznytsia press service. “According to the memorandum, the parties expressed their intention to cooperate to boost freight traffic across the state border between the two…
On July 20, Ukraine International Airlines received the brand new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft manufactured at Boeing facilities in Seattle, the US. The new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft can accommodate 186 passengers in two class seating configuration. The aircraft passed an official registration procedure in Ukraine and received the UR-PSR registration number. Therefore, Ukraine International…
In order to facilitate cross-border gas flows and provide free and non-discriminatory access to the gas transmission infrastructure, the National Gas Transmission Company Transgaz, Romania, and Natural Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine Ukrtransgaz have signed the interconnection agreement for the interconnection point “Isaccea” located at the Ukrainian-Romanian border near Orlovka (on the territory of…
The newly created Ukrainian airline Anda Air, which plans to perform charter flights, has received its first aircraft McDonnell Douglas MD-83. Company co-founder Serhiy Shamenko said the aircraft arrived at Kyiv Airport on July 19. Speaking about plans for the first flights, he said there were such plans, however the company needed to perform a…
New technologies in transport sector such as Hyperloop, will be a priority of Russia’s national technological initiative, presidential aide Igor Levitin said. “Currently there is a new form of transport – Hyperloop. There have not been any new means of transport for about 50 years. That is why everyone wants to find the most effective…
The U.S. General Electric Corporation on July 21, signed letters of cooperation with Ukraine’s Antonov State Enterprise and public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia. “We sign two strategic and political documents on cooperation with GE at the Infrastructure Ministry. This decision is not accident: we were mulling the positions of all players on the global market for…