EconomyFrom January to June of 2015, Klaipeda Seaport cargo handling turnover increased by 6.2% to 18.86 million tons or 1.1 million tons more compared with the corresponding period of 2014. The Ministry of Economy in Lithuania has evaluated the effects of legal amendments undertaken by Lithuanian institutions in the second half of 2014 and provided an estimate that administrative burden on business decreased by EUR 1.85 million as a result. In the first half of the year 2015, the number of Lux Express passengers in the Baltic States increased 11.1% from the respective period last year. Statistics Lithuania informs that, based on non-final data obtained from customs declarations, Intrastat reporting and VAT returns data, exports in June 2015 amounted to EUR 2 billion, imports – EUR 2.3 billion. Exports of goods of Lithuanian origin amounted to EUR 1.1 billion. The foreign trade deficit of Lithuania amounted to EUR 0.3 billion. In July 2015, Lithuania's state company Klaipedos Nafta reloaded 549,000 tons of petroleum products into its storage tanks of Klaipeda oil terminal and Subacius fuel base (SFB), i.e. 3.8% more compared to July 2014, when 529,000 tons were reloaded, the company said in a statement. The turnover of Klaipedos Smelte Container terminal in July was 12.501 TEU. The private holding company Vilniaus Prekyba UAB, one of the largest Lithuanian groups of private companies, which, among others, controls the international retail chain Maxima, firmly refutes any media reports on tax evasions conducted both in Lithuania and any other foreign country where the group's companies operate. In the first half of the year 2015, the consolidated turnover of Maxima Grupe rose 2.6%, as compared with the respective period last year, reaching EUR 1.28 billion not counting value added tax. During the first half year of 2015, the sales of the textile company Utenos Trikotazas AB amounted to EUR 7 million and were 2.0% higher compared to the same period of 2014. The unaudited consolidated profit before income tax of Apranga Group amounted to EUR 3.2 million in the second quarter of 2015, comparing to EUR 2.8 million in Q2 of 2014, the increase of 12.6%. |
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