The Ministry of Infrastructure has sent a letter to the European Commission proposing that the EU completely block transport connections with Russia and Belarus. “Despite the restrictive measures already in place, Russian businesses are finding workarounds and continuing to operate in other countries. Accordingly, the existing sanctions fail to fully achieve their goal. In this…
The Moldovan capital’s authorities will ask the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) for a tariff of 6 lei for one travel by trolley bus or bus. The Chisinau city hall informed that it backed the Methodology of calculation of the tariffs for one travel in the public transport from the Chisinau municipality, worked out by the…
In January-February, the port of Riga handled 3.51 million tons of cargo, up by 2.5% YoY. According to the port’s statistics, grain-handling fell by 37.5%, to 351.6 thousand tons, oil products – – by 32%, to 292.7 thousand tons, metal scrap and metals – by 55.7%, to 22.6 thousand tons. Handling of chemical cargo rose…
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications is working on plans to mitigate the impact of declining trade flows between Russia and Belarus, and ports in Estonia. While shipping of Russian origin had not made up a significant part of trade totals in Tallinn prior to the sanctions issued in the wake of Russia’s invasion…
The Hungarian budget airline WizzAir will carry passengers on regular flights from the western Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport to Italy’s capital Rome starting from March 28, United Airports of Georgia said on March 23. WizzAir will launch once-a-week flights between the cities. Starting from March 28, tourists traveling from Georgia to Italy must present an…
Hungarian airline Wizz Air has launched three new routes from Vilnius and Kaunas and resumed flights to five more destinations. Flights to Barcelona and Athens have been available since March 21. Meanwhile, the airline will fly from Kaunas to Eindhoven from March 28. The company said it was also resuming flights to Belfast in Northern…
On the night of March 22, the Ukrainian seaport of Mykolaiv was hit by Russian forces, the official seaport authorities of Ukraine reported. “The port infrastructure was significantly damaged. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties,” they said. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)