Vilnius Airport was fined 50,000 litas (14,500 euros) for violating competition rules on the fuel supply market after a Competition Council probe discovered breaches of the Competition Law. Vilnius Airport competed with RSS Motors on supplying aircraft fuel, and, in the council's opinion, the airport's administration did not have the right to decide whether RSS Motors needed a second aircraft fueling vehicle to carry out its business. An airport spokesman said they would appeal the fine. Until 2004 Vilnius Airport was the sole supplier of jet fuel to aircraft.
Klaipeda launched the first-ever series of auctions for fish products in the Baltics. The auctions will strive to concentrate the supply of fish products, optimize prices and improve working conditions for local fishermen. Some 80 percent of Lithuania's fishermen are expected to participate in the auctions. Investments into the project exceeded 5.6 million litas (1.6 million euros), the Ministry of Agriculture, which created the project, said. Daily turnover is expected to reach 25 's 40 tons of fish.
The Tallink shipping company will put the Galaxy, a passenger ferry now operating between Helsinki and Tallinn, into service on the Turku-Stockholm route in Silja colors and will replace the existing crew with Finns and Swedes. The Galaxy II, meanwhile, will serve traffic on the Helsinki-Tallinn route once it is complete, Tallink spokesman Tuomas Nylund said. He added that Tallink Silja needed a crew of Finns or Swedes when starting to operate the Galaxy, a 2,800 passenger capacity cruise ship, on the Turku route. "This way the working conditions can be adapted more naturally under the Finnish or Swedish flag," Nylund said.
