BRUSSELS – The IRU warmly welcomes Semerochka, Taxi Petersburg 068 and Taxi 777’s decision to join the fast growing Global Taxi Network (GTN). The addition of these apps makes it much easier for customers to use high quality, safe, legal taxi services in Russia. Russian citizens can now also access similar services when travelling abroad.
Hubert Andela, President of the IRU Taxi Group, said, “With these three apps joining our Global Taxi Network, our ambitions to create a connected network of high quality, legal, taxi services available through customers’ smartphones has taken another significant step forward. I very much welcome the contribution that our new Russian partners will make to our network.”
Alexey V. Gusev, Director General of Semerochka, said, “We support the idea of creating a pool of companies that provide high quality taxi services. The GTN will become the brand of quality that is recognised by taxi users in any country. We’re ready to contribute to it and I’m sure that joining the GTN will help make our services even better while also increasing our company and partners’ earnings.”
Sergey Kashirsky, Business Development Director of Taxi 777, said, “We’re very happy to become a GTN member. It’s a new challenge for us to align with European requirements and high standards in taxi service quality and one that our customers expect us to meet. We look forward to discovering the opportunities that GTN membership will bring to us.”
Soloviev Victor Gennadievic, Deputy Director General of Taxi Petersburg 068, said, “Our company offers a full range of taxi services. We ensure the technical inspection of vehicles before trips, as well as professional training and daily health checks for drivers. We’re not only responsible for the comfort of the passengers, but also for their safety. We consider that joining the GTN is an important step in combating illegal taxi apps.”
The GTN is a network of taxi industry federations and taxi app providers, whose objective is to promote legal, reliable, high quality and safe services to taxi customers, by making use of the latest smartphone technology in full respect of the regulatory framework in force. The network currently operates on 3 continents encompassing 200,000 taxis worldwide, and is growing rapidly with new countries and cities being added regularly.
