Rehabilitation of roads continues in western Georgia, where about 600 kilometres of roads are planned to be updated this year, the Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze said on July 26. Karseladze said that rehabilitation of an 11-km section of Gomi-Sachkhere-Chiatura road would be completed in September. In addition, works are underway in 16 different parts of…
Freight traffic between mainland Russia and the exclave of Kaliningrad, which bordered Lithuania, resumed this week, as the first train was undergoing checks on July 26. “Yesterday, the first train set to cross the territory of Lithuania arrived,” Kotryna Dzikaraite, a spokeswoman for Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), said. A spokeswoman for the Customs Department…
The mixture of asphalt concrete with addition of recycled plastic materials MR8 has been use on two road segments from the central Straseni district. The mixture is made of an arrangement of recycled polymers and is conceived to extend the bituminous binder in a mixture of asphalt, thus reducing the volume of bitumen needed by…
LTG Cargo, the freight subsidiary of Lithuania’s state-owned railway group Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), informed its customers on July 22 that it was resuming the transit of sanctioned goods between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad exclave, in line with the European Commission’s guidance. “In accordance with the relevant EU Council Regulation and the EC…
Construction of a new Rail Baltica railway bridge, the longest of its kind in the Baltic countries, began in Lithuania’s central district of Jonava on July 21. Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte says the bridge over the Neris River and the European standard-gauge railway as a whole will make the country “better connected” to the rest…
German budget airline Eurowings has expanded its Georgian operation by launching new Stuttgart-Tbilisi flights to Tbilisi International Airport, the United Airports of Georgia reports. A subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, the airline made the first connecting flight on July 20, transporting 155 passengers from the German city to the Georgian capital. Its flights will be…
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink and Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov have discussed the issue of establishing transport corridors through the Black Sea to export Ukrainian grain. The ambassador wrote this on Twitter. “Valuable discussion with Infrastructure Minister Kubrakov on negotiations with UN and Turkey on establishing grain transport corridors through the Black Sea.…