Lithuanian Railways

  • Economy

President Grybauskaitė: Lithuanian Railways acts like a state within a state

State company Lithuanian Railways, which is 100-percent owned by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, is acting like a state…

9 years ago
  • Economy

European Commission to earmark EUR 548m for Rail Baltica

The European Commission on Monday proposed earmarking 548 million euros in support for the European standard gauge railway project Rail…

10 years ago
  • Defence

Workshop for civilian and military experts from NATO Transport Group kicks off in Palanga

A three-day workshop for civilian and military experts from NATO's Transport Group kicked off in Palanga on Tuesday, Lithuania's Ministry…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Will Lithuania survive without EU structural funds?

This is the last financial period that Lithuania is entitled to billions of euros in support from the European Union's…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania signs 3 memoranda with China Merchants Group

Three memoranda of understanding were signed on Friday with China Merchants Group at the Office of the Government. The memoranda…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Rusline to launch flights from Vilnius to St. Petersburg

Russia's airline Rusline plans to launch a service between Vilnius and St. Petersburg in late May, the company Lietuvos Oro…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania considers giving aid to Ukraine’s railway transport

Lithuania is mulling a possibility to send locomotives, electric trains and rail cars, which are not used in the country,…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Orlen Lietuva says authorised capital reduction will not affect solvency

Petroleum company Orlen Lietuva responded to concerns expressed publicly by Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) over the company's finances. Orlen Lietuva…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania sticks to its position on Rail Baltica financing model

Lithuania is sticking to its position on the Rail Baltica financing model and will ask the European Commission to provide…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuanian Railways to roll out e-tickets and Wi-Fi on trains

Lithuania’s state-owned railway operator Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will start selling e-tickets late in February. [...]

10 years ago
  • Economy

Foreign investors lead Lithuania’s Top Employer awards

Most of the winners in Lithuania's first Top Employer awards, held in Vilnius this week, were foreign investors, Invest Lithuania…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuanian Railways under EC anti-trust scrutiny over dismantling track to Latvia

If the European Commission decides that Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) limited competition in the rail market by removing…

10 years ago

Lithuanian transport policy presented at conference in Sweden

Ambassador of Lithuania in Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas participated in the conference “The Baltic trade and transport”, held on 4-5 November…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania’s Achema Group to operate its own railway transportation services

After ten years of planning, Transachema, a company of the Achema Group (AG), is ready to start operating as a…

10 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania’s Transport Ministry is repeating errors of previous year, auditors say

The National Audit Office has completed a financial (regularity) audit of the Ministry of Transport and Communications for the year…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Rail Baltica company to apply for EU funding in October

RB Rail, a joint venture of the three Baltic countries that will coordinate the European-standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica,…

10 years ago
  • Energy

Orlen Lietuva: Till death do us part

Mažeikiai oil refinery has never been a plum company for the Polish oil refiner PKN Orlen. Now, the situation has…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania to toughen railway freight scheme to Customs Union

The Lithuanian government will require that all cargo handlers provide preliminary information about cargo carried by rail to the territory…

10 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania is heading on the right track – China Daily

After the official visit by Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania Arijandas Šliupas, aimed on…

10 years ago