Traveling by public transport in the capital could become more expensive from two to six lei. Chisinau mayor Ion Ceban made the statement at a press conference. He said he would propose new tariffs for approval to the city council. “I assume that it is not a popular decision, but it is necessary for the…
Construction works on 88 bridges and 51 tunnels are “actively underway” at the Rikoti Pass, a mountain section dividing Georgia into its eastern and western parts, the Roads Department announced on May 10. The state body said the works were intended to speed up travel across the Pass, with an “almost doubled” traffic speed anticipated…
Polish national air carrier LOT will extend its summer schedule of flights from Warsaw by five new destinations, the airline CEO has announced. Rafal Milczarski told journalists in Chicago on May 7 that in the coming summer season LOT would launch direct flights from Warsaw to Mumbai, Cairo, Sarajevo, Baku and Pristina. He added that,…
Georgia’s Civil Aviation Agency on May 7 rejected as “unverified and baseless” a report by the opposition-minded Formula News outlet that claimed earlier during the day an aircraft owned by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Evgeny Giner had been allowed to be parked at the Tbilisi International Airport “for nearly a month now”. The Agency said…
Operational data on the airport performance showed that this April, more than 419 thousand passengers used Riga Airport; in turn, in the first four months of the year the airport serviced over 1.1 million passengers. “The increase in the number of passengers in April is related to both new and renewed routes from Riga at…
The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda said that its first-quarter cargo traffic declined by 13.7% YoY, to 9.7 million tons. Algis Latakas, the port’s CEO, said that he expected container shipments via Klaipeda to continue growing at a fast rate this year. Container (TEU) loadings in Klaipeda almost doubled in the first three months to 218,000…
Electric Transport company launched ten new trolleybuses on the electric transport routes in the capital. The new AKSM trolleybuses were manufactured at Belkommunmash plant in Minsk and assembled in the RTEC repair workshop. They are equipped with air conditioning systems, indoor and outdoor surveillance cameras and USB sockets. All transport units have LED-based optical blocks,…