During the meeting with Belarusian Minister of Transport and Communications Anatoly Sivak and Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis discussed the successfully operating chain of Belarusian cargo transportation using the services provided by the Lithuanian Railways and Klaipeda State Seaport, as well as the outlook of bilateral cooperation in developing the necessary transport…
Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says that Ukraine and Lithuania may achieve a mutual trader turnover of $1 billion a year. He stated this at a meeting with Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas of the Lithuanian Republic, in Kyiv on August 31. “The level of bilateral trade is quite high. We’d like to set the…
Arrival of a major brand stirs buzz and fuss around, but Depo in Lithuania has taken a different approach. If not for a couple of modest-size articles in local press, the residents of Klaipeda, where the Latvian hardware giant opened its first store, few would have noticed the coming. “Indeed, the whole opening they had…
Several Lithuanian universities and colleges offer identical or similar study programs, but the graduates end up being on different rungs of the ladder after the graduation, career opportunities-wise and in terms of the wage. Having analyzed more than 70 study programs and specialties, Lithuanian magazine Reitingai (Ratings) has compiled the country’s Almae Matres, gauging the…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda between January and October increased by 3% YoY and totaled 33.27 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. In October, the port handled 3.38 million tons of cargo (-0.2%, YoY) including 1.52 million tons of liquid bulk cargo (-14.6%), 1.18 million tons of general cargo (+25.4%) and…
Dominique Ristori, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission, visited a Klaipeda-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal controlled by AB Klaipedos Nafta. Ristori praised an alternative gas supply model chosen by Lithuania, Klaipedos Nafta says in a press release. During a two-day visit to Lithuania, Ristori was interested in the targets of…
Having successfully implemented the first stage of the Rail Baltica project, Lithuania has been the first of the Baltic States to embark on the second stage of the project – the construction of a European standard gauge railway from Kaunas to the Lithuania-Latvia border, the press center of Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications reports.…