Ventspils wants to maintain a ship route connection with Kuressaare
The Latvian city of Ventspils wants to launch the ship route Kuressaare-Ventspils to replace the ship traffic on the route Mõntu-Ventspils that was not launched this season, writes Oma Saar.
The Ventspils City Council turned to the City of Kuressaare, emphasising the importance of a transport link between the two cities on the field of tourism and referring to the need to find additional resources for restoring the ship route in order to guarantee economic efficiency, informs LETA.
Ventspils proposed asking for support from the Latvian-Estonian cross-border co-operation programme for launching the ship route link.
Press spokesman of the Kuressaare City Government Priit Pruul stated that Kuressaare is fully prepared to help out in such a project and is planning to request help from competent officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for changing the terms of the CBC programme.
Pruul noted that the Kuressaare City Government is hoping to sit behind a negotiations table with the authorities of Ventspils in near future in order to discuss the matters.