Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on April 26 said his office would purchase 160 new 18-metre-long buses “in the first stage” of the latest push to update and expand the public transport fleet in the Georgian capital. Kaladze said the new vehicles were planned to be purchased throughout 2024, with the first batch to be delivered…
The State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety (Ukrtransbezpeka) has announced new conditions for the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products through Poland, including convoys; transit will resume from the beginning of the day on April 21. This was reported by the press service of Ukrtransbezpeka on Facebook. “The transit of agricultural products through Poland resumed…
Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze on April 18 said the landslide risks observed last month on the kilometre 149 section of the Rikoti Pass, a major crossing between the western and eastern parts of the country, had not been caused by the construction works on a new highway through the pass. Karseladze was commenting on…
Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on April 18 said implementation of the Maritime Single Window, a system for digital exchange of information used by ports for arrival, stay and departure of ships, would make Georgia “even more attractive” as a logistics hub. Speaking at the opening meeting of Digital Ports I, a programme, which included the…
Georgia’s three international airports serviced 1,050,864,506 passengers in January-March, up by 33% YoY and by 3% from Q1 2019, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency reported. Between them, the three facilities serviced the following numbers of passengers: Tbilisi International Airport – 713,660 passengers, up by 41%, Kutaisi International Airport – 253,073 passengers, up by 108%, and…
United Airports of Georgia on April 11 said it would add eight additional flights to three domestic destinations between April 13 and April 15 for the upcoming Easter holidays. The airports body said the flights would take passengers to Mestia in the northwestern mountainous region of Svaneti, Black Sea city of Batumi in the west…
Construction of the new Rikoti Highway was set to be completed this year, the Roads Department of Georgia said on April 10, while rejecting media reports that suggested the work had been delayed from its original deadline of 2022. The Department’s comments came following a report by Formula TV on the topic, with the state…