Riga municipality’s public transport company Rigas satiksme (RS) has announced a personnel selection process to pick the fifth company council member, according to information published in Latvian Herald. The offered wage is EUR 1,650 before taxes. The council member is required to have higher education in law, at least Master’s degree or 2nd level vocational…
Construction work of the second stage of the Island Bridge project is ahead of schedule. However, at the same time, residents complain about the organization of traffic for pedestrians and cyclists. Riga City Council’s officials visited the bridge on July 31 to overlook progress with construction. As the delegation was told by Riga City Council…
A 15% lower excise duty rate on strong liquor is to enter into effect in Latvia on August 1. The reduced excise duty rate will apply through February 29, 2020. The reduced rate will not apply to beer, wine or other alcoholic beverages containing up to 22% pure alcohol. On July 8 the Saeima passed…
Pasazieru vilciens (PV) and Skoda Vagonka (Skoda) have signed a contract for the supply of 32 new electric trains. The contract states that all trains have to be supplied before the end of 2023. Company representatives say that the supply of new trains will be performed gradually – the first trains will be supplied in…
At the end of 2018 Latvia’s State Employment Agency (SEA) focused on the category of unemployed people older than 50. These people accounted for 40.5% of all unemployed people in Latvia, according to the agency’s 2018 report. Long-term unemployed people were also SEA’s focus last year. These people account for 25.1% of all unemployed people…
A total of 3.5 million passengers were serviced at Latvia’s international airports in the first half-year of 2019, up by 9.6% YoY, according to data compiled by the Civil Aviation Agency (CAA). At the same time, the number of serviced flights has increased by 7.57%. While the number of serviced flights was 40,117 last year,…
Industrial production output in Latvia in May when compared to the same period of 2018 increased by 1.7%, which was a more rapid growth rate than the average in the EU, according to data published by Eurostat. Among the EU member states for which data was available, industrial output growth was more rapid in Denmark…