Transport

27-01-2014
British Airways (BA) will add one additional weekly flight between London Heathrow and Tripoli from late February, bringing the total weekly flights to five.
27-01-2014
International flights to and from Sirte airport have been stopped temporarily due to “administrative reasons”, with internal flights unaffected.
24-01-2014
French ambassador in Tripoli Antoine Sivan discussed transport projects in which French companies are involved, and also visited Misrata.
16-01-2014
Half a century after being established, the state-owned carrier says it has opened a new headquarters in Benghazi, its original home.
14-01-2014
The Benghazi Local Council has formed a committee to supervise the expansion plans at Benina International Airport, which serves Libya’s second city.
10-01-2014
Abdelkader al-Ayib said his ministry started over 400 projects in the previous year, despite the “exceptional circumstances which make working almost impossible.”
09-01-2014
A Tunisair flight bound for Sfax on 8 January became the first-ever international scheduled service to run from Sirte airport, in central Libya.
09-01-2014
Libya’s railways authority is prequalifying companies for a feasibility study on a Tripoli system, plans for which were under way before 2011.
08-01-2014
The state-owned carrier resumed flights to the capital of neighbouring Algeria on 7 January.
07-01-2014
Libya’s railways agency has implemented a General National Congress (GNC) decision to appoint a new chairman.
07-01-2014
The state-owned carrier has opened a new office in Sirte and plans more domestic and international flights from the central Libyan city.
06-01-2014
The state-owned airline is starting direct flights between the largest city in southern Libya and the Jordanian capital.
06-01-2014
Zliten Local Council has signed seven contracts with local firms totalling LD2.8m ($2.2m) to improve roads and bridges in the town.
02-01-2014
State-owned Afriqiyah Airways took delivery of its fourth Airbus A330-200 aircraft on 30 December.
30-12-2013
Libya's busiest port says it unloaded a record number of containers last year and handles more than half of the country's cargo imports.