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Greece and Bulgaria.
Azerbaijani gas supplies via the TAP gas pipeline to consumers in Italy, Greece and Bulgaria began on December 31, 2020. The total length of TAP is 878 km, of which 550 km passes through the northern part of Greece, 215 km through the territory of Albania, 105 km through a pipe laid across the Adriatic seabed and 8 km across the territory of Italy to the terminus. TAP is the last component of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project, the name for the interconnected infrastructure that allows Azerbaijan to supply gas to Europe. Prior to entering TAP in Greece, the gas flows via pipelines laid across Georgia and Turkey.
TAP is designed to transport 10 bcm of natural gas per year from the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea. The throughput capacity of the gas pipeline makes it possible to double its capacity to up to 20 bcm per year.
The project co-owners are: SOCAR (20%), BP (20%), Snam (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagas (16%) and Axpo (5%). The cost of the project was €4.5bn. The groundbreaking for TAP took place on 17 May, 2016 in Greece.
9.2.2 Aviation corporate news
Turkey’s Southwind Airlines launches charter flights between Tbilisi and Antalya
Pars Air launches Isfahan-Tbilisi flights
Armenia and Georgia carriers to buy three game-changing Boeing cargo planes
Turkey-based Southwind Airlines has started operating charter flights between Tbilisi International Airport and Turkey's top Mediterranean resort destination Antalya.
The first flight took off on August 21. TAV Georgia, the Turkey-based company that operates Georgia's two airports, announced that once-a-week flights on an Airbus 321 aircraft would be offered on Sundays until September 25.
Pegasus Airlines, a Turkey-based low-cost airline, operates regular flights from Tbilisi to Antalya five times a week. During September, the frequency will increase to six times a week.
Isfahan Airport has launched flights between the central Iranian city and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, Iran Aviation reported on August 17.
The small regional airline, Pars Air, has begun the new route as part of efforts to rebuild international connections from the provincial Iranian city and former capital. Georgia is a popular destination for Iranians due to the proximity of the country and cost of travel being generally low.
“Pars Air is operating the new flights. These chartered flights are scheduled for Fridays and Mondays,” Abouzar Ziyayi, director general of Isfahan airports was quoted as saying by the news portal of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
Pars Air, established in 2015, is one of a number of private Iranian airlines that were created to shake up the country’s airline industry by offering new licenses.
The small airline is the only Iranian provider that flies the Canadian-built Bombardier CRJ-200 in its fleet.
The airline is said to have the youngest fleet of all Iranian airlines and has grown its flights internally to small cities in the Persian Gulf.
Armenian airline Aircompany Armenia and sister carrier Georgian Airlines, subsidiaries of Georgian Airlines Group, are to get access to B737 freighter aircraft.
The airlines confirmed reaching a groundbreaking agreement to obtain three B737-800 converted freighters (BCFs) to boost South Caucasus air cargo operations. According to an agreement signed at the International Farnborough Air Show in England, the first B737-800BCF will be handed over
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