On Tuesday, China Merchants Group (CMG), a Chinese state-owned transportation, logistics, real estate and financial conglomerate, confirmed that it will continue with plans to invest in Lithuania, Verslo Žinios reports.
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The City of Klaipėda is auctioning several dozen land plots for lease this year in order to attract investment and encourage construction.
Prices are rising as the real estate market along the entire Lithuanian seaside picks up, with the resort of Palanga seeing the most activity, driven by a falling ruble and more interest from Lithuanian buyers.
Geoterma, a Lithuanian company, has received permission to use geothermal water from a underground well in Klaipėda for the first time for health purposes.
The works to deepen the Klaipėda sea port offshore shipping channel to accommodate bigger ships at higher speeds have been completed.
This year's largest national Lithuanian military exercise, Lightning Strike 2016, has begun. The Lithuanian military, together with police, firefighters, ambulances, border guards, municipal personnel and riflemen, will practice responding to the first stages of hybrid and other types of military ac...
Russian carriers are continuing to use the port of Klaipėda after receiving a small number of transit permits from Poland to release the logjam at the port that developed from a dispute between the two countries.
Rugby is a fast-growing sport in tiny Lithuania, where almost every city now has its own club. One of the growing clubs in the country is Klaipėdos Kovas. Its junior squad made history as the first Lithuanian club to play in Ireland and also to claim a victory.
Klaipėda seaport reached an all-time record level shipping traffic last year of more than 38 million tons and this year is still holding its leadership position as traffic declines at other Baltic sea ports.
New Polish-made passenger trains will operate on the route between the Lithuanian capital Vilnius and Klaipėda on the Baltic coast.
Klaipėda University‘s training sailboat Brabander is preparing for its longest journey yet – a 5,000-mile-long odyssey along the coast of Norway, a brief pause in the Shetland and the Faroe Islands, and then around Iceland.
Lithuania and Ukraine have signed a preliminary memorandum on joining a new cargo train route, the so-called New Silk Road, that would transport rail container traffic directly from the Baltic directly to China.
A large winter storm that is battering the coast of Lithuania has forced Klaipėda port to stop ships from entering and leaving the port.
Fortum Klaipėda heat and power plant, which runs on waste and biofuel, produced a record 416GWh of heat and 143GWh of electricity during 2015.
Three Klaipėda City councilmen remember January 13, 1991 - the memories don’t fade.
Klaipėda Seaport handled nearly 38.5 million tons of cargo last year, 1.85 million tons more than the highest level ever recorded for a year.
With only a few days into 2016, decision-makers in the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda glance over their shoulders assessing the previous year, but eyes are already set on the future. Everyone agrees that if it all pans out as planned, Klaipėda in 2016 will be a place to watch.
Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania.
A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments.
Latvian weekly newspaper SestDiena has carried out an experiment on how to recruit fighters for Eastern Ukraine in the Baltics. The investigation reveals that Klaipėda, the port city in western Lithuania, is a recruitment point for mercenaries to fight in Ukraine's separatist eastern regions.
