Due to the drop in freight, Latvian Railway (LDz) could fire approximately 600 more employees, the Latvian Minister of Transport Talis Linkaits said on March 31. “The initial estimate suggests 600 more employees could be laid off,” said the minister, adding that LDz had been ordered to prepare the best-case and worst-case scenarios and an…
Lithuania will ask the European Union for an additional 24 million euros to secure the Russian transit train corridor, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite said on March 30. “It will include specific technical measures, in particular, the purchase of a helicopter. These are measures that would boost Kaliningrad transit security, and we need around 24 million…
Increasing the price of a trip in municipal public transport is necessary to avoid the bankruptcy of municipal passenger transport companies. The mayor of Chisinau, Ion Ceban, argued economically the proposal to increase the tariff for a trip in municipal public transport, stating that this was done to avoid the bankruptcy of the Urban Bus…
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…