Transport Ministry and LTG Link sign 10-year agreement on passenger transport by rail

The Ministry of Transport and Communications and LTG Link, the passenger transportation company of the Lithuanian Railways Group, have signed a passenger transport agreement for the period between 2023 and 2032 aimed at creating even more convenient conditions for rail travel, including those with individual needs, also promoting the use of more sustainable public transport and reducing the impact of transport on the environment, the ministry said in a press release on Thursday.

The need to conclude such an agreement and to finance railway routes that are necessary to ensure the population's need to travel by public intercity transport, but are not commercially profitable, is laid down in the Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on public passenger transport services by rail and by road and is common practice in the European Union.