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Screening procedures for the assessment of potential environmental impacts have been completed as the Port of Klaipėda prepares to build a new cruise ship terminal in the central part of the city. The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that an environmental impact assessment is not required...
On Sunday morning, the last cruise liner this year is set to dock in the port of Klaipėda. A total of 41 cruise liners berthed at the Lithuanian port city this season, which lasts about five months.
The Port of Klaipėda in Lithuania is set to undergo a major transformation in the coming years: from a “gateway to the world” to an “energy port”. In the future, the Port of Klaipėda is expected to become an energy centre, not just a cargo, shipbuilding and repair base, the Port of Klaipėda said in ...
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is calling on the European Union to impose sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko and is planning to initiate European discussions on economic support to Belarus after the authoritarian regime falls.
As authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko continues to threaten to divert Belarusian cargoes from the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to Russia, Luminor bank's chief economist Zygimantas Mauricas says the port needs to cut its reliance on the East-to-West flow.
Algis Latakas, former production director at Klaipedos Juru Kroviniu Kompanija (Klaipeda Stevedoring Company, or Klasco), the largest freight operator in the port of Klaipeda, has won the competition for the post of CEO at the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority.
The whole of Lithuania is placed under quarantine for two weeks as of Monday. BNS provides a review of key instructions and recommendations.
A court of first instance will have to hear again a complaint by Biriu Kroviniu Terminalas (BKT), a cargo handling company co-owned by businessman Igor Udovickij and Belarusian fertilizer producer Belaruskali, against the Lithuanian government over its planned restrictions for the company to expand ...
A crude shipment from Norway for Belarus is expected to arrive in the port of Klaipeda this week as an alternative to Russian oil.
A Lithuanian army helicopter saved an injured Russian citizen from a tanker, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense said.
Lithuania's port of Klaipeda needs an outer port to maintain the port's effectiveness, Arturas Drungilas, marketing and corporate affairs director at the Klaipeda Seaport Authority, told a press conference on Tuesday in response to President Gitanas Nauseda's call earlier this week not to push the d...
Chinese investment into the construction of an outer deep-water port in Lithuania's port of Klaipeda can undermine national security, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
In response to criticism from Vygaudas Ušackas over pension cuts, Ingrida Šimonytė reminded her opponent in a presidential primary debate that they both served as ministers in Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius' 2008-2012 government.
Lithuania should overcome Latvia in the competition battle for Chinese companies' investments in transport and logistics sector, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after meting with China's Parliamentary Speaker Zhang Dejiang in Vilnius on Friday.
Lithuania has to be proactive in competing with Russian ports for cargoes, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday morning.
The first ship with a 13.6 metre draft has left Klaipėda port after the deepening of the port led to the adoption of a new 13.8 metre limit for ships.
The Port of Klaipėda is concluding a deal with a shipping company that will offer passenger ferry services from the Lithuanian Baltic Sea port.
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.
