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Poland adopts plan to expand oil infrastructure
Poland will expand its oil pipeline network by building two new pipelines, including one to accommodate increased imports of oil from countries other than Russia, the government said on November 28.
Poland has been diversifying its oil and gas supplies in order to boost energy security and reduce dependency on the main supplier Russia. The plan adopted by the government assumes building a new pipeline from Plock, where a PKN-Orlen operated refinery is located, to the port city of Gdansk, which also is home to a refinery, operated by Lotos.
“The project is supported by a “dynamic increase” in oil supplies from countries such as the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, or Iran,
in line with the “strategy of diversification of supplies by Polish refineries,” the government said.
Serbia’s second largest airport, Constantine the Great Airport in Nis, broke its record for passenger numbers on November 28, an- nouncing the following day that 300,000 passengers had travelled through the airport since the beginning of the year.
Constantine the Great Airport is a very rare success story about a small airport in a region where most struggle to survive.
This is mainly thanks to its geographical position - Nis is the clos- est airport to citizens across the eastern and southern parts of the country - but it was famous until 2015 as an airport without travel- lers. Instead, numerous Serbs opted to travel via Skopje in neigh- bouring Macedonia.
However, regular air traffic resumed after a 19-month break in June 2015 when Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air started operating flights from Nis to Basel.
China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran have signed a deal to boost the transportation volume carried along the China-Kazakh- stan-Turkmenistan-Iran (CKTI) rail route, Tasnim News Agency reported on November 29.
The deal to boost trade on the CKTI – approximately 10,000 kilometres in length – forms part of the far wider plan devised by Beijing to tie in swathes of Asia to its massive One Belt One Road (OBOR) trade infrastructure project designed to smooth the passage of Chinese exports to markets including Europe and Central Asia.
Serbia's one time "airport with no passengers" announces record numbers in 2017
China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran commit cargoes to 10,000-km CKTI rail route