A passenger train between Vilnius and Riga will start running early next year, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Marius Skuodis has said. It remains unclear whether the train would go via Siauliai in northern Lithuania or Daugavpils in Latvia. “Lithuania’s northern municipalities are showing great interest and willingness to have a passenger train running between…
RB Rail AS, the joint venture overseeing the planned high-speed Rail Baltic link across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has signed an agreement, which will bring it an additional EUR 1.1 billion from the European Cohesion Fund. This comes on top of co-financing from all three countries. The pan-Baltic states’ project has secured funding for construction…
Proposals to ban ultra-cheap airline tickets may be symbolic, but it would definitely affect air travel in the Baltic States, where budget airlines take up a particularly big share of the market. Less polluting modes of public transport, such as rail, are also relatively underdeveloped. Ten-euro plane tickets are simply no longer feasible, says the…
On September 29, Baltic fishermen gathered for a protest in Palanga, where the European Commission was gathered for a meeting to discuss the reduction of fishing quotas for sprat and herring in 2024. Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian and Polish fishermen gathered for a protest outside a hotel in Palanga, where Virginijus Sinkevicius, Commissioner for the Environment,…
Baltic colleagues will need to look for solutions and additional funding to continue Rail Baltica railway projects together, because the costs are up for everyone, not just Latvia, Minister of Transport Kaspars Briskens has said. He said he could not voice the exact estimates as to the cost of implementation of the project in Latvia.…
Estonian President Alar Karis and his Baltic counterparts met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, where their discussion focused on issues related to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Speaking at a strategic investment summit, the three heads of state also called on American entrepreneurs to invest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. At their…
The network of public electric vehicle charging stations is growing in the Baltic States, and for now at least, this expansion is most rapid in Latvia. Latvia’s charging network has almost two and a half stations for every ten electric cars. Estonia has one station for every 20 cars, and Lithuania has one for every…