The automobile road leading to northeastern Georgia’s picturesque and remote Tusheti highland region is set to be rehabilitated and modernised to make travel easier and safer for both visitors and farmers. The Ministry of Infrastructure of Georgia announced on July 28 that the project would be completed gradually in 2025 and GEL 100 million ($34…
Ukraine will supply agricultural products to foreign markets via alternative routes if Russia continues shelling the port infrastructure, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has said. “We will move to Plan B if Russia continues shelling the port infrastructure, which we have already used before. That is, we will use the Danube ports, we will use the…
Lithuanian airline GetJet will resume flights in Georgia by offering multiple charter connections between the Baltic States and the country, Deputy Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili has announced. Kvrivishvili said the Baltic States had been “one of the important” tourist markets for Georgia and noted the Government “actively worked” to increase the awareness of the country’s…
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…