Transport

Turkey's TAV Operation Services has won the tender to operate the advertisement areas of Carthage Airport in the capital of Tunisia for four years, the company said by a written statement on March 2.

The number of airports whose advertisement areas are operated by TAV Operation Services has now increased to three, the company added.

Greece is protesting Turkey's move to reserve a large chunk of airspace over the Aegean Sea for military maneuvers until the end of the year, a Greek foreign ministry spokesman says.

The Bulgarian National Income agency, Ministries of the Interior and Transport are organizing a joint inspection on the activities of Uber Bulgaria - an internationl transportation company that is a direct competitor to local taxi firms.

Joy and dismay greeted the arrival on Wednesday in Romania of the increasingly popular car-sharing service UberX, which aims to provide alternative and cheap transportation services.

UberX, a smartphone application that connects passengers to car drivers willing to provide transport services for a small fee, was launched in Bucharest.

Work on the Hemus and Trakia motorways will resume in March, when the winter road cleaning regime across the country is partially lifted, according to Lazar Lazarov, Chair of the Management Board of the Road Infrastructure Agency.

Italian sources from the prosecutor's office in Bari found that one of the two charred bodies found on the ship could belong to a 60-year-old missing truck driver following the disastrous Norman Atlantic shipwreck. The second body possibly belongs to an undocumented migrant whose name was not on the passenger list. Official autopsy results are still pending.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Piraeus has made it into the top 10 in the European ports chart in terms of container handling, according to the adjusted figures for 2013 that were issued on Wednesday by Eurostat.

Piraeus port ranks 10th, having handled 3.2 million containers with a 13.7 percent annual increase, which was the highest among the top 15 ports on the continent.

Lazar Lazarov, Chairman of the Management Board of the Roads Infrastructure Agency, has assured that tolls will only be levied on heavy goods vehicles.

In a Wednesday interview for the morning broadcast of bTV, Lazarov informed that toll revenue would go to road maintenance.
He said that the new tolls were expected to take effect in 2018.

The death toll in a ferry tragedy in central Bangladesh hit 78 on Feb. 25, after rescuers recovered more bodies floating kilometres downstream from the site of Sunday's accident, officials said.
      

Three crew members of the fated Sea Diamond cruise liner, which sank off the island of Santorini in 2007, causing the death of two people, faced a Piraeus appeals court on Tuesday after the Supreme Court partially upheld their appeals against their conviction on charges of negligence.