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PPP highway construction projects go ahead
SLOVAKIA, suffering from various impacts of the global economic downturn, sees public-private partnership (PPP) projects for highway construction as one of the tools to propel its slowing economy. The Slovak government has prepared three PPP packages which should pave about 157 kilometres of highways and dual carriageways and join the more developed west with the less developed east of the country by the end of 2010.
Bratislava Airport gets new terminal
THE CHANGING number of people using Bratislava Airport has stirred discussion about how the new terminal there will satisfy the needs of passengers in terms of capacity as well as quality of services.
Institutions in transport segment in Slovakia
Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak RepublicNámestie Slobody Square 6P.O.BOX 100, 810 05 BratislavaThe Slovak RepublicTel.: +421 2/ 5949 4111Fax: +421 2/ 5249 479www.telecom.gov.sk
Challenge in the sky
THE GLOBAL economic downturn has not left Slovak aviation unaffected. The airports in Bratislava as well as in Košice report a decline in travellers, but even during the current market turbulence, new carriers are emerging, while others are using the global crisis to make their operations more efficient. Other air companies are escaping some of the effects of the crisis thanks to the particular focus of their businesses.
Air transport in Slovakia
International airports in Slovakia:Bratislava – www.airportbratislava.sk Poprad-Tatry – www.airport-poprad.skKošice – www.airportkosice.skŽilina – www.letisko.skPiešťany – www.airport-piestany.skSliač – www.airportsliac.sk
Railway transport in Slovakia
Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK)The founder and one hundred percent shareholder of ZSSK is the Slovak Republic, represented by the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications.
Bus transport in Slovakia
Unlike the state-owned railway company, regional bus transportation is provided by regional joint-stock companies. One of the most important of them is the Bratislava bus company Slovak Lines. For bus connections and more information go to www.slovaklines.sk.
Self storage makes its route to Slovakia
WHERE can a family put its furniture or other belongings while moving or during extensive renovations? Where can a company keep all of their required-by-law accounting files and papers for years?
Only the strong will survive
DURING the recent years of record growth in the transportation market, many carriers invested in expanding their vehicle fleet in order to satisfy the customers’ demands. However, although the transportation market did grow over the last two years, it was not enough to make the new vehicles profitable to their owners. Moreover, the market has also been affected by rising fuel prices, an increasing cost of labour and cheaper competition from abroad.
Logistics firms look east
SLOVAKIA’S logistics centres are still concentrated mainly in the western part of the country, near Bratislava. However, investors are starting to focus more and more on eastern Slovakia, which neighbours Ukraine.
Narrower and steeper
FREEWAYS and motorways can be built narrower and steeper under new standards that took effect on July 1. The Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing has stated that the revised standards will make highway construction more affordable and ease many of the challenges of building in mountainous regions of the country.
Post delivered millions more items last year
SLOVAK POST (Slovenská Pošta), based in Banská Bystrica, received, transported and delivered almost 350 million first and second class letters, parcels, advertising consignments and postal cheques in 2007.
Cabinet road plan and budget outline don't match
ON APRIL 23, the cabinet approved a draft plan for maintenance of first-class roads through 2010. The plan estimates that maintenance across Slovakia in 2008 will cost Sk1 billion. For each of the following two years, Sk1.930 billion has been earmarked, SITA wrote.
Eastern opportunities
KEY foreign investments in western Slovakia have attracted logistics firms to the region. But good news is expected in the rest of the country with logistics firms announcing plans to operate further east. Further developments in the automotive and high-tech industries are being planned which should lead to further growth in the logistics businesses serving them.
New logistics centre in Zavar Industrial Park
HB Reavis Management Banská Bystrica will build an industrial and logistics centre worth approximately Sk6.7 billion near the town of Trnava, in western Slovakia. The investor predicts that the centre will create 960 new jobs, company spokeswoman Želmíra Rácová told SITA.
Post stores thousands of undeliverable items
AT the beginning of this year, Slovak Post counted more than 160,000 items at its storage site in Banská Bystrica that were undeliverable due to an incomplete or missing address. Around 600 such items are processed daily at the Postal Registration and Deposit Office in Trnava, Andrea Pivarčiová, spokesperson for Slovak Post, told SITA.
Analysis of Slovak-Czech merger within six months
THE SLOVAK and Czech transport ministries have until mid 2008 to prepare an analysis of how the countries' railway cargo transportation companies could be merged, reads a report by the Slovak Transport Ministry on the current state of ŽSSK Cargo Slovakia.
CS Cargo Slovakia completes acquisition
LOGISTICS company CS Cargo Slovakia completed the acquisition of the transportation company mGal spedition Bratislava this February.
Bratislava airport gets cargo boost
BY THE END of this year the volume of cargo shipped through Bratislava's M. R. Štefánik airport could grow four-fold. The airport hopes that the plans of just one company will give a major boost to the air cargo business at what is Slovakia's main airport.
Cargo preparing for intermodal transport
RAILWAY cargo company Cargo Slovakia (ŽSSK Cargo) is preparing for a boom in intermodal transport. The company sees a clear shift developing in freight transport in Europe from road to railway transport, which is more eco-friendly.
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