Ryanair celebrates the opening of its second hangar at the Kaunas Airport, strengthening its commitment to the aviation industry in the region, reports the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
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On Thursday, the Seimas of Lithuania adopted amendments to the Road Transport Code drafted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. New regulations are aimed at taxi and ride-hailing drivers to improve the quality of services.
The new Board of Directors of AB Lietuvos oro uostai (Lithuanian Airports) will start its work on 23 March, the authority said on Wednesday. It will consist of four independent board members and one civil servant of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
On 23-24 November, Vilnius will host the fifth international Baltic Transport Forum, the largest transport and logistics sector event in the Baltic countries. The milestone event will be opened by President Gitanas Nausėda and Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis.
In May 2023, Lithuania assumed the Presidency of the International Transport Forum (ITF). Young Tae Kim, secretary-general of the world’s only body with a global mandate for all transport modes, believes this is an opportunity for Lithuania to shine on the international stage and to establish itself...
An important stage of territorial planning of the European gauge railway Rail Baltica is coming to an end – specific territories, parcels of land and their parts have been identified, which the Rail Baltica railway line will cross on the section from Jiesia (Kaunas) to the Polish border, the Ministr...
The status of a project of national importance the Government has recently given to the development of fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) will enable sustainable development of the electronic communications infrastructure, the Ministry of Transport and Communications says,
A civic campaign ‘Milijonas vaistinėlių Ukrainai’ was launched across Lithuania on Monday with an aim to collect one million car first aid kits for Ukraine.
On Monday, the reconstruction of the longest section between Marijampolė and the Lithuanian-Polish border (56.83–72.50 km) of Via Baltica’s A5 Kaunas–Marijampolė– Suwałki has been officially launched, the Ministry of Transport and Communications announces.
In order to improve communication between Lithuania and Poland in a coordinated manner, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Julius Skačkauskas and Polish Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Rafal Weber discussed in Marijampolė the modernisation of Via Baltica highway and improve...
In 2022, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania, together with external consultants, prepared a plan to promote flights to destinations which have strategic importance for Lithuania. Now, Lithuanian Airports are introducing a new incentive model and launching an international call...
Lithuania and Italy are strengthening cooperation in the field of intermodal transportation by developing new logistics routes for railway and other types of transport between Kaunas, the ports of Trieste and Monfalcone in Italy via the port of Duisburg in Germany, as well as between the Baltic Sea ...
On Friday, the parcel of Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis was delivered to the Mayor of the capital Remigijus Šimašius by an autonomous (self-driving) delivery car that circulated the streets of the capital for the first time. For this occasion, the innovative and environmenta...
Lithuania's Transport and Communications Ministry has proposed linking all of the country's cycling paths into a single system.
Board of the state-run company Lietuvos Paštas (Lithuanian Post) has dismissed Lina Minderienė from the post of director general after six years in office, the Transport and Communications Ministry said.
The Ministry of Interior has decided to refuse the proposal to implement zero tolerance laws for blood alcohol content while driving.
The road maintenance and development program (KPPP) finance estimates submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications were approved by the government on Monday. The amount earmarked for road development and maintenance was €454 million, or 16.8 percent, larger than it was in 2015.
Uber, the international ride sharing platform that has recently started operating in Vilnius, is balancing in the "grey area" of legality, a Transport Ministry official says. The ministry and the Lithuanian tax authorities are still waiting for full documentation from the company, Lietuvos Žinios re...
"The transport sector is one of the major and most significant components of economic and social infrastructure. It is, therefore, necessary that particular attention is paid to it. During the 2014-2020 financial period, more than EUR 1.5 billion in EU structural funds are to be invested in this sec...
