Passengers will be able to pay seasonal ticket fares for Tbilisi public transport using their bankcards starting from September 1, Mayor Kakha Kaladze has announced. Kaladze said city authorities had reached agreement with two major banks in the country, TBC Bank and Bank of Georgia, enabling their customers to integrate their travel passes into the…
The Georgian Infrastructure Ministry on August 10 said the China Road and Bridge Corporation, the contractor company for a road rehabilitation project in the Guria region, had been fined GEL 1.7 million ($629,664) for failing to fulfill the terms of the deal on three sections of the road. The statement came in response to a…
Russia has already exhausted the limit for the transit of some sanctioned goods through Lithuania to and from Kaliningrad, so they are no longer transported by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), the country’s state-owned railway company says. “The averages of some commodity codes for iron and steel, wood products, fertilisers, ethylene glycol, as well as…
A ban on transporting Russian coal and solid fuel through the EU came into force on August 10 under the EU’s fifth sanction package. However, the ban is subject to an exception in Lithuania under the European Commission’s clarification. A limited amount of sanctioned products can be transported by rail between mainland Russia and the…
Georgian Railway made over GEL 191 million ($70.4) in income from freight in the first six months of 2022, the highest figure over the last seven years, the company announced on August 8. The company transported a total of 6.8 million tons of cargo in the first two quarters of the year, up by 13.3%.…
Following the Razoni dry cargo ship loaded with corn, which was the first to leave Ukraine along the “grain corridor”, 20 more ships are ready to leave Odesa, Ambassador of Ukraine to Lebanon Ihor Ostash has announced this on Facebook. “We are now in Tripoli, but the arrival of the first ship with corn from…
Passenger flow in western Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport increased by 11% in July compared to the pre-pandemic figure in 2019, with the number of flights rising by 24 %, the United Airports of Georgia said on August 5. The airport serviced 93,919 passengers, while in 2019 the figure stood at 84,728. A total of 330…