Klaipėda Harbour
Economy

Record turnover at Klaipėda port

Klaipėda Seaport handled nearly 38.5 million tons of cargo last year, 1.85 million tons more than the highest level ever recorded for a year. […]

No Picture
Economy

Airfields to be sold to municipalities

The management of Lithuania’s airfields will be entrusted to municipalities after a decision by the government‘s Strategic Committee. However, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that municipalities would not be forced to take the responsibility for the airfields. […]

YPlan
Economy

Will Lithuanian startup Yplan become first billion dollar company?

Lithuanian start-up YPlan, an event discovery and booking app created by two Lithuanians in London, has gained recognition from one of the most influential technology blogs in the world – VentureBeat. The portal added the Lithuanian project to a list of 15 startups worth following. […]

Lukoil petrol station
Economy

Why is Lukoil really leaving Lithuania?

Just before Christmas, Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov announced that Lukoil would start to withdraw from Lithuania and Latvia. However, for a number of Lithuanian economists it appeared strange that one of the main reasons why Lukoil said that it had decided to withdraw from Lithuania and Latvia was not linked to the company‘s move to performance optimization and a switch on the wholesale oil market, but rather the anti-Russian mood in the two countries, alfa.lt reports. […]