Capacity of Ukrainian ports of the Danube will be expanded 1.7-fold, to 25 million tons per year. This plan was announced by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. “We started with 400 thousand tons in March. Now the shipments amount to 1.5 million tons. We have reached this with limited resources and infrastructure,”…
Shipping line Tallink has leased its Victoria I cruise vessel to the Scottish government. The ship will be used for temporary accommodation. The lease, concluded with a company representing the Government of Scotland runs for six months, starting on July 8, with an option for a three-month extension, Tallink says. The MS Victoria I has…
The European Commission has not yet taken a decision on Kaliningrad transit sanctions, Lithuanian MEP Petras Austrevicius has said. “On June 30, European Commission officials, in response to my request to discuss the Kaliningrad transit issue in the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs, confirmed that there was currently no final decision on the matter,” he…
Saudi Arabian budget airline Flyadeal has made its inaugural flight to Georgia from the capital Riyadh and resort city of Jeddah with brand new Airbus A320neo aircraft, the United Airports of Georgia reports. The jet landed at Tbilisi International Airport last night, with an official welcoming ceremony hosted to mark the maiden connection. The Director…
On June 30, two guarded freight trucks sent from a manufacturing plant in Ostrava delivered the remaining two out of four new passenger cars for the new electric train, as reported by JSC Pasazieru vilciens. To rolling part, roof parts and the first two passenger cars arrived in Riga last week. With that, Latvia has…
Minsk wants to relaunch passenger train services to Vilnius, halted two years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Lithuania’s state-owned railway company says it does not plan to do so either this year or in 2023. “Passenger train services between Vilnius and Minsk hadbeen suspended since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began,” Kotryna Dzikaraite,…
Lithuania and the United Kingdom are discussing opportunities to open direct flights between Vilnius and London Heathrow. Transport Minister Marius Skuodis and UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in London on the development of air services and discussed the possibility of direct flights between Vilnius and Heathrow airports, the Transport…