Due to the protest of Slovak carriers in front of the Vysne Nemecke-Uzhhorod checkpoint, customs officers in Zakarpattia region are sending trucks to other checkpoints, Zakarpattia Customs reports. “To avoid the accumulation of queues in front of the Uzhhorod-Vysne Nemecke checkpoint, Zakarpattia Customs directs carriers to the nearest checkpoints for crossing the border, Chop-Zahony, on…
Efforts to assist Ukraine in exporting its agricultural products have exposed the Baltic countries’ insufficient transport capabilities, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has said in Tallinn. He also urged the acceleration of the Rail Baltica European standard-gauge railway project. “Our efforts to help Ukraine to transport agricultural products pointed to the insufficiency of connectivity capacity in…
Newly released figures from Eurostat reveal a notable surge in Bulgarian air passengers, marking a 74% increase in 2022. Despite this growth, the nation holds the distinction of the EU’s second slowest rise, with Cyprus recording a slightly lower increase at 69%. The European Union, as a whole, experienced a remarkable upswing, with an average…
Almost 7.5 million tons of goods have already been transported through the new export corridor in the Black Sea, which Ukraine has launched after expelling the Russian navy fleet from the area. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of this in an address to the G7 leaders via videoconference. “Ukraine won in the Black Sea,…
Moldova and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will sign a loan agreement for the implementation of Moldova V road rehabilitation project. The agreement provides for the contracting of a loan worth 150 million euros. A project in this sense was approved on December 6 by the Government. The amount granted by the…
LOT Polish Airlines is the world’s third best airline in 2023, according to the AirHelp Score ranking. The airline trailed Qatar Airways and Eurowings in the rating, which was based on three factors: punctuality, passenger reviews, and fair treatment when problems arose. LOT outperformed Etihad Airways (4th), United Airlines (10th) and KLM (16th). Germany’s Lufthansa…
Baltic ambassadors in Warsaw have expressed their displeasure to the Polish authorities about the blockade of truck traffic on the Ukrainian border. The issue has been raised repeatedly with the Polish authorities, according to the Estonian Foreign Ministry. “There was a meeting/demarche of the three Baltic ambassadors at the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure in Warsaw,”…