Feb 02, 2012 - Klaipeda stretches tentacles to Panama Canal...
KLAIPEDA - The Lithuanian Port of Klaipeda and the Philadelphia (USA) Regional Port Authority (PRPA) on Jan. 20 signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding that promises to open Philadelphia ports to the European and Asian shipping trade via the ice-free port of Klaipeda, the Lithuanian port city on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, reports marketwatch.com. Lithuania’s Transport and...
Feb 01, 2012 - The once flagship city deteriorated its hard-earne...
KLAIPEDA - Fifty-five-year old Danute Minkiene, a resident of Klaipeda, has been jobless for nearly one-and-a-half years now, and she is exhausted from filling out stacks of job application forms, browsing endlessly on the Web and hassling her employed relatives with the same requests. Nothing has produced a job.
Laid off by a Klaipeda-based public catering company expecting to revit...
Jan 25, 2012 - Lithuanian leaders’ outlines for the economy in 20...
On Jan. 12, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, marking the middle of her term in office, met with PM Andrius Kubilius and the rest of his cabinet in the presidential palace. During the press conference after the meeting, Grybauskaite and Kubilius presented outlines for 2012. “It will be a complicated year because of the coming parliamentary elections and because of the complicated e...
Jan 18, 2012 - New car sales surge not full story...
KLAIPEDA - New car sales in the three Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia saw the biggest growth in the EU in 2011, but the rising numbers are well behind their best, from 2008. The European Automobile Manufacturer Association (ACEA) reports that Latvia was on top of the new car sales list, followed by Estonia and Lithuania.
In total, car sales amounted to 3.9 billion litas (1.1 bi...
Jan 18, 2012 - Palink accuses Guscins of extortion...
RIGA - On Jan. 13 acting Latvian Prosecutor General Arvids Kalnins handed in an official protest to the Supreme Court Senate’s Civil Cases Department over the Riga Kurzeme District Court’s Jan. 5 ruling on the Palink insolvency, reports LETA. The Prosecutor’s Office’s press secretary Laura Pakalne said that the protest was filed due to several substantial material or pro...
Jan 11, 2012 - Kekava hopes for Revenue Service help...
RIGA - The poultry farm and processor Putnu fabrika Kekava (Kekava) hopes that the State Revenue Service’s decision regarding the company’s complicated financial situation will be favorable: on Jan. 10, the Revenue Service was to decide on Kekava’s further existence and debt in the amount of 1.7 million lats (2.4 million euros); the fate of its 600 employees will also be at st...
Jan 04, 2012 - Big growth in passenger numbers at Vilnius airport...
2 By Rokas M. Tracevskis,
VILNIUS
On Dec. 29, the administration at Vilnius International Airport presented their results for 2011 and plans for 2012 during a press conference in the airport’s business lounge. Tomas Vaisvila, managing director of Vilnius International Airport, stated that his airport was among the European airports with the fastest growth in passenger flows.
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Dec 22, 2011 - Rail Baltica study flawed...
TALLINN - Estonian state-owned railway company Eesti Raudtee manager Kaido Simmermann says that based on current information, he would not now take the risk of building the high-speed railway line Rail Baltica, connecting the Baltic States with Poland, reports Postimees. Simmermann said in an interview with Postimees that he sees major deficiencies in the feasibility report on Rail Baltica, whi...