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Lithuania is preparing to establish a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) centre of excellence in Klaipėda. Within a month, the heads of ministries will be presented a letter of intent signed with social partners and an activity plan for an LNG cluster.

Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania's largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour said.

A couple of dolphins have been spotted in the Baltic Sea close to the Smiltynė beach near the port city of Klaipėda.

From January to June of 2015, Klaipėda Seaport cargo handling turnover increased by 6.2 percent to 18.86 million tons or 1.1 million tons more compared with the corresponding period of 2014, the port reports.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) has arrived in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda for a scheduled port visit.

Ro-Pax ferry route connecting the ports of Klaipėda (Lithuania) and Karlshamn (Sweden) has been opened at the Central Klaipėda Terminal.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is visiting Klaipėda on Monday. He says that Klaipėda University and companies located at the seaside must cooperate and contribute to the development of Lithuania's maritime sector.

Expansion of the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda will make it more competitive vis-à-vis other ports in the region as it will be able to handle larger ships and increase reloadings simultaneously, the port’s CEO has said.

The headquarters of a new motorized infantry brigade will be situated in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda in 2016, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. It will be a second brigade in the Lithuanian army.

Klaipėda, Lithuania's third city on the Baltic coast, plans to rebuild St John's Church that was demolished after World War Two. The new church will feature a tower of the original height of 75 meters, Klaipėda Municipality said on Wednesday.

Representatives of Central Terminal of Klaipėda, which was officially opened last summer, reached an agreement with the shipping company DFDS Seaways to form a new passenger-cargo (ro-pax) ferry line connecting the ports of Klaipėda and Sweden, Lithuania's Ministry of Transport and Communications re...

The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda resumed normal operations on Sunday evening after a storm that had halted vessel traffic during the weekend, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

Residents of the western part of Lithuania will now be able to enjoy a more reliable supply of electricity thanks to the reconstructed transformer substation in Klaipėda which will also ensure more secure transmission of electricity.

The Lithuanian port of Klaipėda will on Monday try resuming navigation, which was disrupted by strong winds on weekend.

Six vessels are waiting to be cleared for entering the port of Klaipėda where ship traffic was partially restricted on Friday morning due to strong winds, the port's authority said.

On 23 December, Philip Morris announced the launch of a new LTL 137 million (EUR 40 million) investment project to expand its factory in Klaipėda. The expansion and modernisation of the factory, which is already set to start this year, will increase production capacity by 40 percent. All extra produ...

Lithuanian customs officers on Friday detained a huge shipment of smuggling drugs in the port city of Klaipėda – three sacks containing a total of 116 kg of cocaine were discovered in a sea container.

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The Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda has been ranked as Lithuania’s number-one municipality in terms of economic freedom. The town gets the top spot in annual rankings for the fourth consecutive year.

Most of the players in the Lithuanian basketball club Neptūnas have grown up in the city of Klaipėda, which has a little more than 150,000 inhabitants. The majority of them went to the same school, to the same grade and used to play in the same high school team. Years later, those kids who have beco...