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…
Lithuanian Transport Minister Marius Skuodis will travel to Warsaw by train on the new Vilnius-Kaunas-Mockava-Warsaw route, which was launched in December last year. His trip using the newly launched connection is expected to highlight the project’s significance. Meanwhile, Rail Baltica, a European-gauge railway due to link the Baltic States and Poland, is scheduled to be…
Due to infrastructure works, the popular Vilnius-Klaipeda link will see reduced service between February and May. The Kaunas-Siauliai connection will also be affected. “There will be two train connections to Klaipeda on normal days,” said Linas Bauzys, head of the passenger service branch of the Lithuanian railways, LTG Link. Meanwhile, trains will not run on…