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Passenger rail service company LTG Link says it has partly restored rail traffic between Vilnius and Kaunas. The trains were suspended due to a damaged overhead contact line on the section.

On Monday afternoon, train traffic was disrupted between Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania’s two largest cities.

The rebuilding of a 19-km railway section between Lithuania's Mazeikiai and Renge, in Latvia, that was dismantled over a decade ago, has been completed, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways), the state-owned Lithuanian railway company, has announced, with the traffic of freight trains due to ...

Estonia's railway services group Skinest Rail said on Monday it has increased, from 27 million euros to 62 million euros, its claim for damages from the Lithuanian government for removing its companies from bidding for contracts from Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG).

Orlen Lietuva, the Lithuanian oil refinery owned by Poland's Orlen, received concessions on the transportation of goods via Lithuanian Railways and secured success during state power reserve auctions in Lithuania following Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' unannounced meetings with Polis...

Lithuanian state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) plans to rent grain railcars from Belarus as Lithuanian grain processors and exporters complain about a lack of them. And the traffic of the existing ones is slow due to ongoing railway repairs, they add.

After closing the route to Moscow, Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG), the state-run railway company, plans on launching a passenger train to the Latvian city of Daugavpils. The company's spokesman said LG was ready but had to wait for the final approval from Latvian railways.

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) is scrapping its passenger service between Vilnius and Moscow in a move that is expected to save the state railway company 2 million euros annually, but passengers will continue to be able to take a Russian train to the Russian capital.

The new top executives of the Lithuanian state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LG) have turned to prosecutors over about 5 million euros in damages caused to the company by possibly non-transparent operations of its earlier chiefs.

Daivis Zabulionis, deputy director of the Lithuanian Road Administration, has been sacked after nearly a year in office amid corruption suspicions.

Lithuania will have to improve its reputation that has been harmed by the country's inability to find common ground with its partners in Rail Baltica and to prove that it is not holding back the European standard-gauge railway project, Rokas Masiulis, the new transport minister, said.

The new cabinet chancellor Milda Dargužaitė says she has come to reform state governance and is aware that she can expect much resistance. During a Tuesday Delfi conference on December 20, M. Dargužaitė spoke about reducing staff numbers and raising wages in the state sector without requiring extra ...

The state-run company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) that has lately drawn attention from the media and the law-enforcement over lack of transparency was also engaged in million-euro deals with Baltkran company registered in the Russian Kaliningrad region, delfi.lt news portal said...

Mantas Bartuška, the new chief executive officer of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG), is confident that he will manage to turn the country's largest state-owned enterprise, which has recently come on the radar screen of law-enforcement, into a transparent company.

A new management board of the state railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG), which has lately come on the radar screen of law-enforcement, was appointed on Wednesday, the day when Rokas Masiulis took over the helm of the Transport Ministry.

The Tuesday's searches of the offices of the state railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) are part of nearly a year-long international investigation, Financial Crime Investigation Service (FCIS) says.

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) pursues a foreign policy of its own by cooperating with a Russian corporation linked to the military industry, a member of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence said.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Lithuania is creating the most problems for Rail Baltica implementation and the new Estonian president underlines the importance of completing the European standard-gauge railway project despite concerns in Lithuania.

Estonian Foreign Minister Jurgen Ligi believes that the Baltic countries will soon to finalize the signing of an agreement on a procurement model for the 5-billion-euro European standard-gauge railway project Rail Baltica.

Former Minister of Economy, Social Democrat (LSDP) Birutė Vėsaitė and Aivaras Abromavičius, former Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade, now candidate for the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), were featured in a live Delfi Balsuok 2016 debate on September 30. ...