Wed, 18 May 2011: Energy leads talks…
May 18, 2011 Baltics
The Baltic States’ prime ministers, who met last weekend in Tallinn, have not yet reached an agreement, though, on whether and where to build one big liquefied natural gas terminal in the Ba...Tags: Andrius, Baltic States, Feasibility Study, Klaipeda, Leads, Liquefied Natural Gas, Lng Terminal, Nice Dinner, Participation, Prime Minister, Prime Ministers, Regional Infrastructure, Rsquo, Terminal Project
Wed, 23 Mar 2011: LNG terminal location still a tossup…
Mar 23, 2011 Baltics
These include an ice-free port, the geographic position of the city and the Ventspils Port’s experience of handling and storing liquefied gas. Lembergs said he was surprised at the plans to ...Tags: Baltic Countries, Geographic Position, Infrastructure, Klaipeda, Latvia, Liquefied Gas, Lithuania, Lng, Ports, Riga, Rsquo, Soviet Times, Terminal Location, Ventspils
Thu, 6 Jan 2011: Klaipeda signs reconstruction contract…
Jan 6, 2011 Baltics
9, reports news agency LETA. The agreement provides reconstruction of the southern 90-meter long part of the piers No. 8 and reconstruction of piers No. 9 in Klaipeda port. The cost of the work i...Tags: Consortiums, Envelopes, Euros, Germany, Klaipeda, Latvia, Lithuanian Company, News Agency, Open Tender, Participant, Piers, Poland, Reconstruction, Russia, Signs, Value Added Tax
Wed, 22 Sep 2010: Nationalism may delay LNG project…
Sep 22, 2010 Baltics
The terminal will have a capacity of up to 3 billion cubic meters a year. That is 500 million cubic meters more than the country’s demand last year, according to BP Plc. In July, Lithuania&...Tags: Baltic Port, Baltic States, Bp, Bp Plc, Budget, Cubic Meters, European Commission, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Lng Terminal, Nafta, Nationalism, Owned Company, Rsquo
Wed, 28 Jul 2010: Russia lacking in environmental safeguards…
Jul 28, 2010 Baltics
Petersburg and the St. Petersburg Center for Ecological Initiatives. The first such rally took place in 1999, and it has been an annual event ever since. The ride began in St. Petersburg and then...Tags: Aim, Authorities, Bikers, Construction Projects, Ecological Initiatives, Ecologists, Environmental Safeguards, Klaipeda, Kurshskaya Kosa, Lithuania, New Construction, Oleg, Poland, Rallies, Rally, Russia, St Petersburg, World Organization
Wed, 10 Jun 2009: Mass layoffs for construction companies…
Jun 10, 2009 Baltics
The last few years saw a huge growth in demand 's especially in apartments and commercial properties, offices and warehouses. After the financial crisis hit the banks, they stopped financing," he ...Tags: Apartments, Bankruptcy, Banks, Construction Companies, Financial Crisis, Financial Situation, Klaipeda, Mass Layoffs, Office Space, Respondents, Vilnius, Warehouses
Wed, 13 Feb 2008: PKN Orlen says Liepaja is as attractive as Klaipeda for a new pipeline…
Feb 13, 2008 Baltics
The Poles want to build a product pipeline linking Mazeikiai, where the refinery is based, to the terminal, which would enable the company to boost exports of high-end fuel products. Lithuania's ...Tags: Economy Minister, Fuel Products, Klaipeda, Majority Stake, Percent Stake, Perspective, Pkn Orlen, Product Pipeline, Refinery, Shareholder Agreement, Shares
Wed, 12 Sep 2007: Mazeikiu, Klaipeda to be linked…
Sep 12, 2007 Baltics
The tanker-delivered crude is more expensive than oil pumped through pipelines, and the refinery has seen its profitability nosedive. "We understand that our proposal to invest our capital in Kla...Tags: Board Chairman, Invest, Klaipeda, Mazeikiu Nafta, Nosedive, Oil Terminal, Pipeline, Pipelines, Pkn Orlen, Preparedness, Profitability, Proposal, Proposals, Refinery
Wed, 18 Oct 2006: Klaipeda Oil terminal cuts scale of operations…
Oct 18, 2006 Baltics
16, he said. Products produced at Mazeikiu Nafta comprise over 80 percent of total handling at the terminal. Ausra refused to comment when asked whether Mazeikiu Nafta would continue exports via t...Tags: Ausra, Baltic News Service, Communications Director, First Nine Months, Fuel Oil, Heavy Fuel, Klaipeda, Litas, Mazeikiu Nafta, Nine Month, Oil Terminal, Petroleum Products, S Communications, Tariffs
Wed, 31 Aug 2005: Ultra-mall poised to raise equity capital…
Aug 31, 2005 Baltics
Vilniaus Akropolis controls Akropolis malls in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda. In Latvia, it controls Rigas Akropole subsidiary and has daughter companies in Romania and Bulgaria.Last year it posted...Tags: Akropolis, Ambitious Expansion, Bulgaria, Daughter Companies, Decline, Equity Capital, Expansion Plans, Finance, Investment Company, Investments, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Latvia, Malls, Pretax Earnings, Romania, Stock Exchange, Subsidiary, Turnover
Wed, 27 Jul 2005: Construction firm denied contract rights…
Jul 27, 2005 Baltics
The bank opted for even harsher sanctions for Hidrostatyba, a Gargzdai-based building company stripped of the liberty to sign contracts for World Bank-funded projects for a three-year period until...Tags: Authorities, Bank Representative, Construction Contract, Construction Firm, Contract Rights, Contracts, Cooperation, Corruption, Fraud, Klaipeda, Local Company, Manner World, Mantas, Member States, Press Release, Sanctions, Secret Arrangement, Sewage, Water Supply, World Bank
Wed, 20 Apr 2005: Banks extend whopping loan to Kaunas mega-mall…
Apr 20, 2005 Baltics
The Hansabank Group will extend some 340 million litas, while Nordea Bank Lietuva will loan some 219 million litas, and the Sampo Group about 81.3 million litas. Vilniaus Akropolis will add the sy...Tags: Akropolis, Baltic Countries, Bank Loan, Banks, First Three Months, Grocery Stores, Klaipeda, Lietuva, Litas, Malls, Market Operator, Maxima, Mega Mall, Nordea Bank, Prekyba, Romania, Surg, Syndicated Loan, Vp
Wed, 30 Mar 2005: New facility for plant-based chemical company…
Mar 30, 2005 Baltics
Arunas Jarmolavicius, investment director at Linas ir Viza, said methyl ester would be exported from the port of Klaipeda to other European countries. Rape methyl ester is used to produce biofuel,...Tags: Belarus, Chemical Company, Detergents, European Countries, Farmers, Fodder, International Markets, Investment Director, Klaipeda, Lubricants, Methyl Ester, Oilseeds, Percent Stake, Producers, Rape, Rapeseed, Rosenkrantz, Trades, Ukraine And Russia, Viza
Thu, 6 Jan 2005: Cargo handling down at ports…
Jan 6, 2005 Baltics
Eleven-month cargo turnover in Estonia's ports was 42.4 million tons, down 2.1 percent from the same period in 2003, while Lithuania's ports handled 25.4 million tons, or 13.2 percent less, cargo ...Tags: Baltic Ports, Cargo Turnover, Decline, Estonia, Jan 2005, Klaipeda, Latvia, Leads, Lithuania, Russia, Sea Port, Tallinn, Ventspils
Thu, 5 Aug 1999: U.S. company becomes new distributor…
Aug 5, 1999 Baltics
Mathot, director of Cargill's global fertilizer operations, said the company will oversee the production quality and distribution of the Lithuanian company's products but will not interfere in its...Tags: Ammonium Phosphate, Cargill, Europe, Fertilizer, Fertilizers, Global Operations, Klaipeda, Latin America, Lithuanian Company, Production Quality, Shareholder, Shareholders, Shares, Stake, U S Company, Year 2001
Thu, 22 Jul 1999: Klaipeda FEZ: almost ready to roll…
Jul 22, 1999 Baltics
Big-name companies have been trickling in since Lithuania re-established its independence. Tobacco giant Philip Morris has already thrown $60 million into a cigarette producing plant while Master ...Tags: Ania, Baltic, Cigarette, Corporate Tax Breaks, Customs, International Tenders, Investment, Investors, Klaipeda, Largest Cities, Lithuanian Government, Loc, Philip Morris, Regime, Shot Companies, Siauliai, Tobacco Giant
Thu, 22 Jul 1999: Summed up…
Jul 22, 1999 Baltics
The construction of the hotel will be financed by an international syndicate loan. LITHUANIA WANTS TO ATTRACT TRANSIT: Lithuania intends to liberalize customs procedures hoping to retrieve transit...Tags: Customs, Decisions, Finance Minister, International Syndicate, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Railway, Sea Harbor, State Transit, Transit Committee
Thu, 5 Nov 1998: Free port status proposed for Klaipeda …
Nov 5, 1998 Baltics
Upon being brought into the zone, goods would not need to be declared and submitted to customs to carry out formalities, and inventory could be carried out on the basis of transportation documents...Tags: Algis, Anchor, Attractiveness, Customs Officials, Economic Activities, Flo, Formalities, Free Borders, Free Port Zone, Free Trade Zone, Free Zone, Klaipeda, Transportation Documents, Transportation Minister, Warehouses
Thu, 27 Aug 1998: Klaipeda development center founded…
Aug 27, 1998 Baltics
One of the center's functions will be to save money allocated for management, the deputy director general of Klaipeda FTZ Managing Company, Judita Simonaviciute said.The center will have its offic...Tags: Amsterdam, Board Chairman, Board Meeting, Deputy Director, Development Group, Everaert, Ftz, Klaipeda, Kleipeda, Management Bodies, Management Company, Managing Company, Mindaugas, Money, New Management, Vilnius
Thu, 13 Aug 1998: Privatization row further strains Lithuanian-Latvian relationship…
Aug 13, 1998 Latvia
"However, as doubts about our reliability surfaced only when the privatization competition finished shows that political powers appeared, and that disturbs us. Someone doesn't seem to be receptive...Tags: Coastal City, Competition Principles, Doubts, International Competition, Klaipeda, Latvian Capital, Latvian Government, Lithuanian Capital, Lithuanian Counterpart, Minister Of Transportation, Offensive Activity, Privatization, Relationship, Reliability, Strains, Vilis