Kaunas Intermodal Terminal (KIT)
CORPORATE

New rail shipments to Italy to open up export routes

Lithuanian Railways has begun regular shipments between Lithuania and Italy that will open export routes for Lithuanian goods. […]

"Rail Baltica"
Economy

First stage of Rail Baltica completed

Lithuania’s Kauno Tiltai AB, the largest transportation infrastructure company in the Baltics, and Mitnija UAB, the largest construction company in Lithuania, have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Šeštokai town to Marijampolė town (Lithuania), Mitnija said in a press release. […]

International transport conference in Stockholm “Business Opportunities and Logistic. Scandinavian and Eastern Europe case”
Economy

International conference in Stockholm discusses transport opportunities for Scandinavia and Baltics

On September 10th an international transport and logistics conference took place in Stockholm. On the initiative of the Lithuanian Embassy in Sweden, the conference was organized by Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications, JSC Lithuanian Railways, port of Klaipėda, Turkish-Swedish business association Sweturk and International Swedish Freight association. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Eligijus Masiulis
Politics

PM criticises liberals over their stance on loan to Lithuanian Shipping Company

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of the Liberal Movement, made a populist decision to oppose efforts to salvage the Lithuanian Shipping Company‘s (LSC) and address prosecutors. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuanian president criticizes government for trying to rescue state-owned shipping company

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the government’s decision to rescue Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL) from bankruptcy at the expense of dividends from Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) is a short-term solution, adding that the transport minister and the prime minister are responsible for the poor situation the state-controlled dry bulk operator is in. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius
Economy

No bankruptcy for cash-strapped Lithuanian Shipping Company for now

Bankruptcy proceedings of Lithuania’s financially-troubled shipping operator Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL) will not be initiated yet, the prime minister has said after a meeting with several ministers and executives of LJL and SEB Bankas. […]