On June 27, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and the country’s leadership agreed on “key principles” for consultations with the European Commission on Kaliningrad transit sanctions. “There was unanimous agreement today on the key principles and provisions Lithuania should follow in order to clarify certain points to the European Commission,” presidential adviser Kestutis Budrys told reporters…
There is a shortage of around 1,000 bus and trolleybus drivers across Lithuania. With few new drivers entering the labour force, the problem is expected to get worse. “This is a shortage of public transport drivers everywhere – in all companies, in all regions, in all municipalities,” Gintaras Nakutis, head of the Passenger Transport Association,…
The UK government is contributing up to GBP 10 million to repair Ukraine’s rail infrastructure to facilitate the export of grain from the country amid Russian aggression. “In addition to preventing grain from leaving Ukraine via the Black Sea – the route by which 96% of Ukraine’s grain has historically been exported, Russian attacks are…
The European Commission will clarify its explanation on the implementation of the EU-sanctioned goods’ transit restrictions between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad region, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on June 23. “I will meet with the European Commission president. I will see the draft and I do believe that clarification will be published soon,” Nauseda…
Polish shipbuilding industry officials are willing to set up cooperation with counterparts in Ukraine to restore the latter’s merchant fleet. Tadeusz Kopowski, chief of the Crist shipbuilding company, spoke about this in the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Entrepreneurship Forum in Warsaw. “Poland’s shipbuilding industry proposes to create permanent Polish-Ukrainian working groups, in which we would…
The British consulting company Skytrax presented the winners of the World’s Best Airports 2022 according to a passenger survey. The top ten include airports of Batumi, Budapest, Tallinn, Bucharest, Riga, Tbilisi, Boryspil, Belgrade, Bratislava and Zagreb. Skytrax is a famous British consulting company that has been evaluating and studying the quality of services at airports…
Steel transit to Kaliningrad made up only an insignificant share of freight shipments by Lithuanian Railways (LTG), Transport Minister Marius Skuodis said on June 22. The ban of the rail transit of steel and other ferrous metals between Russia and its exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania has been factored into the overall impact of EU…