The Georgian Maritime Transport Agency on January 24 rejected the statement of Yury Vladimirov, the General Director of the Sochi seaport, on alleged negotiations regarding the commencement of maritime transportation of passengers between Georgia and Russia, adding there had been no sea transport between the countries. The Russian side has not applied to Georgia on…
Projects on road rehabilitation worth more than 12 billion lei will be initiated in 2023. The goal was announced by Deputy Prime Minister, Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Andrei Spinu and was included in the draft National Development Plan for 2023-2025 and the activity plan of the government for 2023. The documents were subjected to…
While Estonia has barred all freight rail transit of Russian origin, Latvia and Lithuania are following a more collective approach, while noting that these trade flows are in any case fizzling out. The Estonian state-owned rail cargo operator Operail halted the transit of Russian and Belarusian goods last year, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However,…
Ungheni International Station was mentioned by the world’s largest travel guide company, Lonely Planet, in an article about the best railway routes in Europe in 2023, which also showed the resumption, after a break of 24 years, of the Chisinau – Kyiv route. The article reports “the route includes a stop at the Ungheni railway…
40% of Moldova’s railways network is in damaged state and has speed restrictions. At the same time, practically the entire fleet of railway carriages of the enterprise Railway of Moldova (CFM) will reach their exploitation limit in 2025. The CFM director general, Oleg Tofilat, unveiled data on January 19. “All maneuver locomotives are older than…
Irakli Karkashadze, the newly appointed Director of the United Airports of Georgia, on January 18 said the development of Kutaisi International Airport in the country’s west, would be a “main priority” of the body under his leadership. Karkashadze met airport employees, as well as representatives of the contractor company and partner organisations operating at the…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has allocated a sovereign loan of EUR 50.6 million, including an investment grant of about EUR 5 million, from its Green Climate Fund to finance the renovation of up to 12 metro stations in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi. Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili said by signing…