organization:ministry of transport

Is Erdogan’s airport dream turning into nightmare ?
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/03/turkey-erdogan-third-airport-project-may-be-stillborn.html

An engineer from the Ministry of Transportation who spoke to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity said, “I would not want any of my family members to even set foot in this airport. The project was started against all warnings and continued without meeting proper standards. For example, initially the recommendation was to [build] at least 105 meters [344 feet] above sea level. Then they reduced it to 90 meters, and finally it ended up at 60 meters. The ground is not stable; it’s built on underground wetlands. There is not enough soil in the world to fill it safely.”

#Aéroport #Istanbul

China orders ’blacklist’ of 31 North Korean vessels : document | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-sanctions-china-idUSKCN0W61PI

Chinese maritime authorities must “blacklist” 31 boats operated by a North Korean firm that came under U.N. Security Council sanctions this week, according to a Ministry of Transport document reviewed by a signal that China is enforcing tough new curbs aimed at Pyongyang’s banned nuclear program.

The notice, dated March 3, says maritime safety agencies must “urgently” determine whether 31 vessels belonging to Ocean Maritime Management Co (OMM) are in Chinese harbors or waters, and notify the ministry.

The latest U.N. sanctions, drafted by the United States and China, blacklist the vessels. The ministry’s notice says authorities must not allow the vessels to enter Chinese harbors, adding the measures were part of the “exceedingly sensitive” work of enforcing the U.N. sanctions.
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Authorities this week also restricted how many vehicles could cross into North Korea each day via a bridge to the coastal Chinese city of Dandong, from 300-400 earlier to about 100, shopkeepers there said - a sign that sanctions are having some early impact.

Dutch Experts Arrive in Donetsk to Remove #MH17 Wreckage: DPR Deputy Prime Minister | World | RIA Novosti
▻http://en.ria.ru/world/20141104/195115943/Dutch-Experts-Arrive-in-Donetsk-to-Remove-MH17-Wreckage.html

A team of Dutch experts has arrived in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, to conduct preparations for removing the wreckage of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 which has crashed on July 17, Donetsk Deputy Prime Minister told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
“Three Dutch experts have arrived to remove the wreckage of Boeing, which still remains near the town of Torez. The first consultation with the representatives of our Emergencies Ministry, Ministry of Transport and police was held today. The experts also visited the crash site,” Andrei Purgin, who also takes part in the talks, said, adding that the reasons of the crash are not being discussed.
Purgin added that currently the experts are inventorying and measuring the wreckage to find out what kind of transport is needed to take them away from the crash site. They will also determine the route. “Likely [they will take the wreckage] to Netherlands via Kharkov,” Purgin said.
According to Purgin, Malaysia passed on the right to conduct operations with the plane’s fragments to the Dutch side even though the aircraft belonged to Malaysia. “They got offended at Kiev, because Ukraine kept the Malaysian experts in a hotel for three weeks telling them how dangerous it is to come here,” suggested Purgin. He estimates that the MH17 wreckage will be removed from the crash site “in two or three weeks.”

Road works underway in Baku within first European Games - AzerNews
▻http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/59272.html

The Azerbaijani Transport Ministry implements reconstruction and expansion of access and road links to the new Olympic Stadium as part of preparations to the first European Games to be held in Baku in June 2015, Deputy Transport Minister Musa Panahov said on September 10.

Les (premiers) Jeux Olympiques Européens de juin 2015 à Bakou se préparent. Vaste programme de rénovation des autoroutes : 4 fois le montant des travaux d’infrastructures routières de ces 10 dernières année… (1 manat ≈ 1€)

According to Azeryolservis company, operating under the Ministry of Transport, rehabilitation and construction of roads in Azerbaijan requires some 30-35 billion manats (over $44 billion).
Some 8.3 billion manats was invested in the road and transport infrastructure of the country from internal and external sources for the past 10 years.

Victime économique de la crise?

Small carrier Bahrain Air said on Tuesday it was shutting down, blaming political unrest in the island kingdom and the government’s refusal to pay it compensation.
The airline said the government had broken a pledge to compensate it for the unrest and was now requiring it to make immediate payments on debts to the state, while the Ministry of Transportation was ordering it to cut back operations.

The minister of transportation, Kamal Ahmed, is a board member of Gulf Air, which has itself been struggling financially. Last November it cut its orders for new planes to shrink its debts.

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Rannie Amiri: Why Zogby is Wrong About Bahrain
►http://www.counterpunch.org/amiri04052011.html

If Mr. Zogby wants to address the “roots of Bahrain’s crisis” he would do well to note that the 70% Shia population fill none of the senior posts in the Ministry of Defense, National Guard, Ministry of Interior Affairs, the Supreme Defense Council, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, the General Organization for Youth and Sports, the Royal Court, the Crown Prince Court, the Central Informatics Organization, and the Survey and Land Registration Bureau.

Likewise, they form a only five percent of the judiciary corps, 16 percent of the diplomatic corps, seven percent of the Ministry of Transportation, 18 percent of the Constitutional Court, 10 percent of the Ministry of Finance and six percent of the Ministry of Information (Source: Bahrain Center for Human Rights). Their representation in the public sector is equally dismal.

Of the 1,000 employees in the National Security Apparatus (NSA), more than two-thirds are non-Bahraini (largely Jordanian, Egyptian, Yemeni and Pakistani nationals) and overwhelmingly Sunni. Bahraini Shia citizens constitute less than five percent of the NSA and occupy only low-level positions or act as paid informants. The paramilitary Special Security Forces (SSF) operates under NSA supervision and numbers 20,000—90 percent of whom are non-Bahraini. A single Bahraini Shia member is not counted among them.

These imported mercenaries are the ones who rampaged through Manama’s Pearl Roundabout on two separate occasions over the past six weeks, beating peaceful, unarmed and defenseless protestors encamped there. Before their violent eviction, Pearl Roundabout was the epicenter of calls for free elections, release of political prisoners, fairness in distribution in jobs and housing, freedom of the press and religion, an end to the regime’s routine use of torture, and ultimately a transition to a constitutional monarchy. It was the SSF who pulled patients out of rooms in Salmaniya Hospital to continue the beatings, as they did to ambulance drivers, treating paramedics and doctors.

#bahreïn