Compared to July, level of producer prices in the Latvian industry rose by 1% in August. Level of prices of products sold on the domestic market grew by 1.9%, but of exported products – went up by 0.1%. Prices of products exported to euro area countries increased by 0.2%, but prices of products exported to…
Latvian airline airBaltic has carried 2,770,047 more passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East in the first eight months of 2018. In August airBaltic carried 440,562 passengers, up by 14% YoY. In addition to that, airBaltic carried 18% more passengers in this year’s summer season than last year, setting a…
During an extraordinary meeting, members of Ogre County Council supported creation of an egg and egg product plant in Madliena Parish, which had been picked by a Ukrainian investor as a location for the plant. The municipality has received an application from SIA Gallusman board chairman Arnis Veinbergs with information regarding the plans of Ukrainian…
Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says that Latvians’ demand that Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) pay them over 82 million euros for the dismantling of a railway track to Renge a decade ago has come as a surprise to him and more: it was “a stab in the back”, according to him. LG said that it…
Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in January-August climbed by 19.3% YoY, to 4,976,200 tons, the Port Authority says. In the reporting period, transshipment of grain grew by 42%, to 2,066,500 tons, construction materials – by 10%, to 482,100 tons, while transshipment of oil products fell by 16.5%, to 222,900 tons. Container traffic…
The Latvian Supreme Court has banned the Riga public transport company SIA Rigas satiksme from continuing a procurement procedure of passenger van services without changing the procedure. With this week’s ruling the Supreme Court has satisfied the additional complaints by the bus service companies AS Liepajas autobusu parks and AS Nordeka. Having heard the explanations…
Riga International Airport concluded the first half-year of 2018 with turnover increase of 13% when compared to the same period of 2017, according to the airport’s unaudited and shortened account for the six-month period before June 30. Compared to last year’s turnover in the same period, the airport’s net turnover has increased by 13% or…