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    Lithuanian Railways introduces e-ticketing system

Lithuanian Railways introduces e-ticketing system

Latvian FIMA company has installed an e-ticketing system on behalf of Lithuanian Railways, in the framework of a EUR 1.1 million contract. Train tickets are now available online and can be printed out or saved on smart devices. “The system itself is not an innovation but it is the first time that it has

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    Baltic countries submit joint EC funding application for Rail Baltica

Baltic countries submit joint EC funding application for Rail Baltica

Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and the joint-stock company RB Rail have submitted a joint application to the European Commission signed by the transport ministers of all three countries, seeking approximately EUR 620 million funding for the first round of implementation of the Rail Baltica project from the Connecting Europe Facility

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    Russian rail freight operator Freight One and Lithuanian Railways to sign agreement on freight forwarding

Russian rail freight operator Freight One and Lithuanian Railways to sign agreement on freight forwarding

Russian rail freight operator Freight One (PGC) and Lithuanian Railways are preparing to sign an agreement on freight forwarding in Lithuania. The agreement will enable Freight One to offer expeditor services to an additional freight base and make it possible to offer freight shipment at competitive rates on transit shipments through Lithuania. The

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    Lithuanian Railways to acquire electric locomotives

Lithuanian Railways to acquire electric locomotives

Lithuanian Railways (AB Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai) plans to purchase new electric locomotives by 2019, considering that electrification works on Vilnius-Minsk railway line are to be completed in 2016 and the line should also reach Radviliskis railway node in 2020. In addition, works to electrify the rail line between Naujoji Vilnia and the

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    EU suspects Lithuanian Railways of having limited competition

EU suspects Lithuanian Railways of having limited competition

The European Commission has informed the Lithuanian railway incumbent AB Lietuvos geležinkeliai (“LG”) that it suspects the company of having limited competition on the rail markets in Lithuania and Latvia by removing a railway track connecting the two countries. Such behaviour, if established, would breach EU antitrust rules that prohibit

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