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Finland’s Koulova Innovation Oy and Kazakh state rail operator KTZ sign deal to boost container traffic
New subway line and extension to Rustavi envisaged in Tbilisi
State-run Kazakh railway operator Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) and Finland’s Koulova Innovation Oy and Nurminen Logistics Ser- vices have signed a container traffic development agreement, the KTZ press office said.
The agreement seeks to raise the volume of cargo transportation and develop supply chains and services along the China-Finland route passing through Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan’s national railway company is benefiting from heavy investments made in building new routes to better interconnect the country’s regions and link China with Europe and the Middle East. The ongoing development of transit projects between China and European countries is in line with China’s One Belt One Road initiative which hopes to form a transit hub in Kazakhstan for Chinese goods.
Tbilisi City Hall will complete a survey within the next few months on linking the subway network of Georgia’s capital with Rustavi, another important Georgian city 28 kilometres away, Tbilisi mayor Kakha Kaladze told journalists on October 22 after a conference on green energy.
At the same time, Kaladze announced that works on a new Tbilisi subway network line would begin at the end of 2019. It is to run from Samgori train station to the city’s airport at Lilo. About eight new stations will be built within this project, with an estimated cost of $90mn (including $30mn for carriages). The new line should
be used by around 200,000 passengers per year, according to estimates.
Prague airport will offer connections to 114 destinations in 42 countries during the winter. Ten new destinations will be added to the flight schedule, the airport announced in its press release on October 23.
New flights from Prague will be to Amman, Belfast, Dubrovnik, Kutaisi, Larnaca, Marrakech, Paris Beauvais, Pisa, Sharjah and Split. "The new connections to these destinations are proof of the fact that we are able to extend our network also to non-European destinations, which we will keep doing in the future," said the chairman of the airport’s board of directors Vaclav Rehor to Czech News Agency.
Prague airport increases number of destinations for winter season