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Lithuania plans to cut number of state enterprises to five – minister
Lithuania will likely have only five companies with the status of a state enterprise in half a year’s time, including the Centre of Registers, the state car registration company Regitra, the State Forestry Enterprise, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and an agricultural regulation company, Economy Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
Economy
CORPORATE
Klaipėda Seaport considers buying a €25m dredger
Klaipėda State Seaport Authority is considering buying a dredger so it does not have to hire private contractors to dredge the port. The ship could cost between €25 and 28 million and has already been […]
CORPORATE
Klaipėda port surpasses Tallinn and Riga with record quarter
Klaipėda Seaport has again broke records for freight traffic in March, now surpassing other eastern Baltic ports. “In March we had a huge growth of loads compared to the same month last year. Traffic was […]
CORPORATE
Larger loads on ships to boost Klaipėda port revenues
The first ship with a 13.6 metre draft has left Klaipėda port after the deepening of the port led to the adoption of a new 13.8 metre limit for ships. […]
CORPORATE
CORPORATE
Chinese to ship 120,000 containers through Klaipėda seaport
China Merchants Group (CMG) plans to transport at least 120,000 containers per year through Klaipėda port from 2017. […]
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. […]
Economy
Economy
Agreements between China’s CMG and Lithuanian companies to consolidate partnership, PM Butkevičius says
While on his working visit to China, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with the management of the country’s industrial corporation China Merchants Group (CMG) to sign agreements between the Klaipėda Free Economic Zone and CMG, as well as the Klaipėda State Seaport Authority and CMG, the press service of the Lithuania Government said. […]
Economy
Klaipėda Seaport and VPA Logistics sign letter of intent with China Merchants Group
On Wednesday at the Government Office, representatives of Klaipėda State Seaport Authority and logistics services company VPA Logistics signed a letter of intent over development of cooperation with China Merchants Group (CMG), one of China’s state-owned port operators. […]
Economy
New terminal to connect Lithuanian and Swedish ports
Representatives of Central Terminal of Klaipėda, which was officially opened last summer, reached an agreement with the shipping company DFDS Seaways to form a new passenger-cargo (ro-pax) ferry line connecting the ports of Klaipėda and Sweden, Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications reports. […]
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Suspicious tanker near Swedish waters had visited Klaipėda
Sweden‘s armed forces keep their eyes on the tanker NS Concord that has been zig-zagging near the country’s territorial waters for the last couple of days while the Swedes continue to search for what is suspected to be a Russian submarine spotted in Stockholm archipelago. NS Concord does not have a long history but she has already visited Klaipėda Port. […]