Gett starts the water taxi in Russia

On September 2, 2020 Gett announced start of the water taxi in Russia. Service officially will begin work on September 7 in St. Petersburg, it is started in cooperation with the AnyShips company rendering in several countries services on leases of the water transport.

It will be possible to order the six-seater boat directly in the Gett or AnyShips application: it is only required to specify the mooring from where the trip begins. In total about 100 moorings will be available, reported in the company.

It is possible to issue a trip for half an hour before. The cost of the minimum route will be 3000 rubles on six people in 30 minutes of a trip. In the next navigation season the prices are going to be reduced.

Gett starts the water taxi in Russia

The boat for a trip with a breeze, a limousine for the big companies — if it is necessary to go to a holiday, the minivan somewhere, we always at your service. It is no wonder that we became the Russia's first service by request of the taxi which connected service of carriages by water directly in the application — the CEO of Gett in Russia Anatoly Smorgonsky said.

According to founders of AnyShips Pekarevskiya and Georgy Kozhukhovsky's Arcadia, AnyShips task — to offer the city not just walking attraction, but a full-fledged alternative to land transport. From the Peter and Paul Fortress the center it will be possible to reach good weather without traffic jams and with comfort even per hour peak, they noted.

The water transport in the Russian cities is still expected only tourists. However by the beginning of September, 2020 to observe a trend of promoting of the water taxi as public transport for locals. For example, in St. Petersburg run of aquabuses from the Old Village metro station to Admiralteyskaya Embankment works. The water transport and in some other Russian cities, for example, in Rostov-on-Don develops.^[1]

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