Polish shipbuilding industry officials are willing to set up cooperation with counterparts in Ukraine to restore the latter’s merchant fleet. Tadeusz Kopowski, chief of the Crist shipbuilding company, spoke about this in the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Entrepreneurship Forum in Warsaw. “Poland’s shipbuilding industry proposes to create permanent Polish-Ukrainian working groups, in which we would…
The British consulting company Skytrax presented the winners of the World’s Best Airports 2022 according to a passenger survey. The top ten include airports of Batumi, Budapest, Tallinn, Bucharest, Riga, Tbilisi, Boryspil, Belgrade, Bratislava and Zagreb. Skytrax is a famous British consulting company that has been evaluating and studying the quality of services at airports…
Steel transit to Kaliningrad made up only an insignificant share of freight shipments by Lithuanian Railways (LTG), Transport Minister Marius Skuodis said on June 22. The ban of the rail transit of steel and other ferrous metals between Russia and its exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania has been factored into the overall impact of EU…
The Latvian airline AirBaltic is removing four routes from Vilnius Airport as of September. Meanwhile, flights to four destinations – Paris, Berlin, Tallinn and Riga – will be less frequent. AirBaltic will stop operating flights to Oslo, London Gatwick, Dublin and Hamburg from September. AirBaltic says it is facing a shortage of aircraft parts. However,…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will seek to secure EU leaders’ support amid Russia’s threats to Lithuania over the recently introduced ban of the transit of some goods to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. The president will raise this issue at the forthcoming European Council meeting later this week, Asta Skaisgiryte, the president’s chief foreign policy…
Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad is not under blockade, and transit sanctions only affect a limited list of goods, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte emphasized, rejecting Moscow’s accusations that Vilnius was violating international treaties. “There’s no blockade of Kaliningrad. It’s just that since last weekend, sanctions have come into force on some of the goods included…
Two of the major Georgian airports in capital Tbilisi and Black Sea city of Batumi have been named among the top 10 airports in the Eastern Europe, the company operating them has announced. TAV Georgia said Tbilisi International Airport had been ranked fifth in the Skytrax World Airport Awards index, with Batumi airport ranking sixth.…