Lithuanian Airports (LOU), the state-owned airport operator in Lithuania, plans to buy self-service baggage drop-off equipment. The airport operator wants to start using ten self-service baggage drop-off stations at Vilnius Airport’s new terminal scheduled to be completed until mid-2024, Marius Zelenius, head of communication at LOU, has said. It would be a one-step system that…
Tallink Grupp says its Tallinn-Helsinki route shuttle vessel Megastar will go for its first regular dry-docking since the vessel first started operating on the route in January 2017 to Naantali shipyard in Finland in January 2022. The vessel will be in the dock for technical maintenance on January 11-16, 2022. During the docking the vessel…
Eurowings low-cost airlines will start operating regular flights to Georgia’s Tbilisi from German Stuttgart. The Union of Georgian Airports has been in active negotiations with Eurowings since 2017 in order to launch direct flights to Georgia. Eurowings will operate regular flights on the Stuttgart – Tbilisi – Stuttgart route from July 19, 2022. Eurowings has…
Tbilisi City Hall has announced that one-time fare for public transport will be 1 GEL instead of 50 tetri starting next year. Passengers will be able to choose the plan they want from the payment system. For a one-time trip, a passenger will have to pay 1 GEL, with which they can use bus, minibus,…
Lithuania’s state-owned railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LTG) risks falling under US sanctions as it continues to transport Belarusian fertilizers, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has warned. She was commenting on LTG’s statement that it had received an official confirmation from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one…
The head of the Civil Aviation Department, Alexander Nastayev, called on private airlines to restore air ambulance. He turned to the aviators with such a request at a meeting in Bishkek. “Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have completely lost this important service over the years. We don’t have it today. We…
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially confirmed that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest potash fertilizer producers and exporters, are not binding on Lithuania’s state-owned railways. Belaruskali, considered a lifeline for the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, exports a large share of its production via Lithuania. Lietuvos…