Latvian specialty coffee chain Kalve Coffee is expanding into Lithuania, with its first cafe set to open in Vilnius in early August. The company also plans to open additional locations across the country. According to Lithuania’s Centre of Registers, Kalve Coffee established a company under the same name in June as part of its entry…
A train line launched between the capitals of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in January has exceeded expectations and sales of bus tickets on the same route have dropped by more than 25%. The almost 10-hour route links Talllinn, Tartu, Riga and Vilnius and was introduced to increase connections between the Baltic States. Rail Baltic, which…
The multibillion-euro Rail Baltica project, which aims to connect Poland and the Baltic States with a European standard-gauge railway, is scheduled for completion until 2030 – but meeting that target will be a major challenge, according to the project’s top official in Lithuania. “It’s a very, very big challenge,” Arenijus Jackus, chair of the supervisory…
While offshore wind farms are now almost certainly off the table in Estonia for the next decade or two, transmission system operator (TSO) Elering still plans to move forward with an undersea power link to Latvia via Saaremaa. The Ministry of Climate now acknowledges that the previously planned reverse auction-based subsidy model isn’t suitable for…
New regional bus services have begun running between towns in the south of Estonia and the north of Latvia. To establish the bus lines between Valga and Valka and Parnu and Salaca, public transport centers have had to grapple with the different bureaucratic systems in the two countries for a number of years. A new…
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has allocated EUR 295.5 million for the construction of Rail Baltica, with EUR 47.1 million of that amount earmarked for Estonia. Of the additional funding allocated by Brussels, Latvia will receive EUR 153.5 million, Estonia EUR 47.1 million and Lithuania nearly EUR 94.9 million. Latvia’s Ministry of Transport stated that…
Estonia’s government on July 3 rejected an offer from the Latvian Ministry of Transport to purchase a EUR 14-million stake in Latvian airline airBaltic, Minister of Regional Affairs and Infrastructure Kuldar Leis (Reform) said. “We received an offer from the Latvian Ministry of Transport to acquire up to a 10% stake in airBaltic for EUR…