The Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development is increasing the number of checkpoints that are eligible for choosing the time of border crossing by buses within the eCherha service. Four more checkpoints have been added to the list on the borders with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. This brings to 20 the number of checkpoints…
Ukraine and Norway have extended the Agreement on the Liberalization of Freight Transport until the end of June 2025, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development reports. “The Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development and the Ministry of Transport of Norway have agreed to liberalize freight traffic between…
Despite stiff penalties for driving without mandatory car insurance in Slovakia, roughly 9% of the country’s vehicles – about 320,000 – still roam the roads uninsured. This figure, revealed by the Supreme Audit Office (NKU), dwarfs neighbouring countries like the Czech Republic and Poland, where only 1.6% and 1% of cars, respectively, are uninsured. The…
A new route will soon link Plovdiv and Birmingham, enhancing travel options between the second largest cities of Bulgaria and the UK. Ryanair has announced that it will operate direct flights between the two cities, with the inaugural flight scheduled for November 2. One-way tickets for the new service start at 35 euros. Birmingham, which…
Sales of luxury cars in Bulgaria have surged significantly over the past year, according to new data from the Ministry of the Interior. The Bulgarian market has seen a notable increase in the number of high-end vehicles, with approximately 880 people now driving cars from brands such as Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Lotus, McLaren,…
Work continues on the development of the public and private partnership (PPP) model for Rail Baltica project. This could speed up the project’s implementation and reduce the burden on the state budget in the long run, as confirmed by Baltic countries’ joint company RB Rail representatives. RB Rail notes that the addition of PPP in…
On August 12, the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, in cooperation with the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety, published the data of the Licence Register of Carriers on the Unified State Open Data Portal data.gov.ua. This is the first open API data set managed by Ukrtransbezpeka. The register contains a list…