Latvia‘s minister of transport has urged Lithuania to pick up pace on implementing the European-gauge Baltic railway project Rail Baltica. Uldis Augulis met with Lithuania’s ambassador in Riga last week, telling him that the project […]
Residents of a town in central Lithuania have confronted builders of Rail Baltica, saying railway tracks are planned too close to their homes. People of Neveronys are protesting plans to construct a marshalling yard and […]
The European Commission says that the section of the Rail Baltica railway between Kaunas and the Polish border in Lithuania is too slow, vz.lt reports. […]
The strategically important Rail Baltica railway project designed to connect the Baltic States to Western Europe, from Tallinn to Warsaw, is slipping from Lithuania’s hands the country’s opposition parties claim. […]
Major difficulties in the Rail Baltica are now in the past according to the Government Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis who was addressing a meeting with European Commission representatives on the project on Tuesday. […]
A disagreement among the Baltic states is stalling appointments to the board of RB Rail, the joint company which is managing the building of the Rail Baltica railway. […]
Relations between Lithuania and Poland have been chilly for some time now and experts say that the delay in works on the 200km Rail Baltica stretch between Warsaw and Šeštokai are a reflection of that state of affairs. […]
Lithuania has submitted an application for nearly €197 million in funding from the EU to finance the Rail Baltica project that will connect the Baltic States railway systems with Western Europe. […]
The road maintenance and development program (KPPP) finance estimates submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications were approved by the government on Monday. The amount earmarked for road development and maintenance was €454 million, or 16.8 percent, larger than it was in 2015. […]
Chinese representative are coming to Lithuania to inspect Rail Baltica, the European-gauge railway project that will connect the Baltic states and Western Europe with a view to bidding for contracts, LRT reports. […]
“The transport sector is one of the major and most significant components of economic and social infrastructure. It is, therefore, necessary that particular attention is paid to it. During the 2014-2020 financial period, more than EUR 1.5 billion in EU structural funds are to be invested in this sector,” says Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevicius. […]
A segment of Rail Baltica between Kaunas and the Polish border is officially opening on Friday. The Lithuanian prime minister says it is now up to Poland to upgrade its network so that transportation of cargo and passengers on the railway can begin. […]
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. […]
Friday the European Commission‘s record EUR 13.1 billion investment plan for the transport sector came closer to reality, after EU Member States approved the list of projects to receive funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which includes the Rail Baltica high-speed rail project, the European Commission informs. […]
The European Commission on Monday proposed earmarking 548 million euros in support for the European standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica, worth 665 million euros in total. […]
On Monday, at one of the most important European Union (EU) annual transport events TEN-T days 2015, the representatives of the joint venture of the three Baltic States RB Rail presented the project Rail Baltica – a great example of a propriety infrastructure project of a common interest, reports the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania. […]
The Rail Baltica project became suspended for years in Poland, when it emerged that the environmental impact study of the border section between the Polish town Bialystok and the Lithuanian border is outdated, and a new survey has to be conducted; it does not affect the project’s development in the Baltic countries, Postimees Online reports. […]
Work on the Rail Baltica section between Kaunas and Lithuania’s border with Poland is going smoothly, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius assured on Tuesday. […]
This is the last financial period that Lithuania is entitled to billions of euros in support from the European Union‘s structural funds. After 2020, the cash flow from the EU coffers will decrease significantly and Lithuania will have to learn to do without the support that currently makes a sizable contribution to its economy. Some economists say that unless the country uses the current funding right, economic growth after 2020 might all but stop. Others are more optimistic, insisting that Lithuania’s economy is stable enough to sustain growth even without EU injections. […]
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