Lithuanian Railways

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius say that Polish-owned oil refinery Orlen Lietuva and the state-owned railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) should resume negotiations over transportation rates that broke down in May. To read this ...

Lithuania's state-owned companies operate inefficiently, pay no dividends to the state, their funds are used to purchase media outlets, and they serve as "havens for unemployed party members", President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.

A new Kaunas-Bialystok rail service will launch in June, the first time in 77 years a direct rail service will run between Lithuania and Poland.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius will discuss the European Commission's accusation that Lithuanian Railways abused its dominating position and the several tens of millions of Euros in fees for the demolished track to Renge in L...

A man has died of heart attack on a train in Lithuania after attendants reportedly refused to turn on air conditioning, LNK reports.

Trains on a new railway route will start transporting passengers from Kaunas in Lithuania to Białystok in Poland this June.

The European Commission will fine Lithuanian Railways up to €50 million for disassembling almost 20 kilometres of the Rengė section of railway track, reports the Polish portal Energetyka24.com, citing European Commission sources.

Senior representatives of China‘s industrial giant, China Merchants Group, will visit Lithuania again this week to meet with representatives of Lithuanian Railways and the Klaipėda Seaport Authority to explore opportunities in the country.

A disagreement among the Baltic states is stalling appointments to the board of RB Rail, the joint company which is managing the building of the Rail Baltica railway.

New Polish-made passenger trains will operate on the route between the Lithuanian capital Vilnius and Klaipėda on the Baltic coast.

Lithuanian Railways has begun regular shipments between Lithuania and Italy that will open export routes for Lithuanian goods.

The government should decentralise state-controlled enterprises, public institutions and government organisations to the regions to move more jobs out of the capital to the regions, especially to the underdeveloped municipalities, said parliamentarian Kęstutis Masiulis.

Lithuanian Railways is to borrow €68 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to fund a series of infrastructure improvements.

Kazakhstan will being transporting goods to Scandanavian and Western European markets using Lithuanian Railways trains after a new contract was signed between KTZ Express of Kazakhstan and Lithuanian railways.

Chinese representative are coming to Lithuania to inspect Rail Baltica, the European-gauge railway project that will connect the Baltic states and Western Europe with a view to bidding for contracts, LRT reports.

Lithuania's Kauno Tiltai AB, the largest transportation infrastructure company in the Baltics, and Mitnija UAB, the largest construction company in Lithuania, have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Šeštokai town to Marijampolė town (Lithuania), Mitnija ...