Lithuania plans to spend €3 million for developing infrastructure for electric cars next year. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
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The very first airline Germania plane from Switzerland landed in Vilnius on Thursday. The regular flights between Vilnius and Zurich will start a month later, on June 2, but this time all the airline's management flew to Vilnius.
Lithuania is planning to spend €10 million in 2017 on developing infrastructure for electric cars. Seventeen new charging stations are planned to be installed on highways across the country in addition 150 in cities and towns.
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.
Alcolock system and rehabilitation program for drunk drivers will soon be introduced in Lithuania. The road traffic safety draft is being prepared by the Communications Ministry together with the Ministry of Interior and the Road and Transport Research Institute specialists.
The Lithuanian government announced on Monday that it would scrap 1,290 positions in government agencies from April of next year.
The government has approved the bill on the Lithuanian airports concession, which is expected to boost competitiveness of Lithuania's air transport system.
Lithuania's Ministry of Transport and Communications together with independent consultants, after analysing all legal and financial options, submitted a proposal to set up a new corporate group formed from companies of the transport sector, the ministry reports.
The An-2 plane, which crashed and sank in the Baltic Sea in mid-May, will be lifted up from the bottom of the sea for divers to be able to inspect it, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius said on Wednesday, adding that there are currently no plans to salvage the airc...
The Lithuanian Transport Ministry has come up with an idea to find a concessioner for the management of the country’s three international airports.
Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius has not rejected the possibility of resigning after the aircraft An-2 disaster. However, at first the minister said he would like to know more details and offered to wait for the causes of the disaster to be clarified.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications estimates that in 2014 Lithuania's transport sector accounted for 13.1 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
Once again, Lithuania proved that it is a leading country in fibre-optic network penetration. In 2014, the number of internet users in Lithuania increased by almost 3 percentage points and reached 34.6 percent. This is by far the best result among the 39 European countries where the study was conduc...
Minister of Transport and Communications of Lithuania Rimantas Sinkevičius greeted the participants of the Committee on Economics, Energy and Innovations of the Baltic Assembly (BA), emphasising the importance of the project Rail Baltica to both Lithuania and the whole Baltic region, the Ministry of...
UK rail companies working in international projects and providing rail infrastructure services such as planning, construction and management of innovative and sustainable railways met the representatives of the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications. During the meeting, the companies ha...
A study commissioned by the Information Society Development Committee under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania on Lithuanian e-government services revealed that electronic declarations and electronic applications were the most popular form of electronic communication between L...
The total investment in Lithuania's transport sector during the new EU financing period is likely to be more than EUR 5 billion, whence 47 percent will be used to modernise Lithuanian railway network and 36 percent to modernise road infrastructure (26 percent in pan-European highways, 6 percent in m...
The Lithuanian Transport Ministry proposes to establish protection zones around strategic facilities and infrastructure to make it possible for authorities to check if potential investors meet the national security criteria.
On 28 October, representatives from the Baltic States signed a landmark agreement which will launch the project Rail Baltica and bring the Baltic region closer to Western Europe.
Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications has prepared the New Generation Access Network Plan for 2014-2020, which will provide the basic new generation broadband infrastructure in areas where no adequate broadband infrastructure was available before, the ministry said in a report.
