SocietyTurnover of trade and repair of motor vehicles enterprises in Lithuania decreased in July2015-08-30, 16:27Statistics Lithuania informs that, based on provisional data, in July 2015, the turnover (VAT excluded) of enterprises engaged in wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles amounted to EUR 207.2 million and, against June 2015, decreased by 2.2% at constant prices. SAS is opening three new routes to USA in 2016. The new routes being launched are Los Angeles from Stockholm, Miami from Oslo and Miami from Copenhagen. SAS is also increasing the number of departures from Stockholm to New York and Chicago and between Copenhagen and Shanghai. That means that SAS will now offer over 330,000 additional seats on its intercontinental routes in 2016. On 27 August, a train from Poland arrived in Kaunas on the new Rail Baltica track with Catherine Trautmann, the European Coordinator for the North Sea-Baltic core network corridor, of which Rail Baltica railway line is a part, aboard. A train from Poland with passengers aboard last arrived in Lithuania in August 1939. On August 27 air contingent of the Italian Air Forces will conclude their duty on the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission that it was carrying out from the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania. Italian soldiers were guarding the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for two consecutive rotations, the total of 8 months, with four Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets. The Italian air contingent will be farewelled at a ceremony at the Šiauliai Air Base on August 27. Energy experts say that the model applied to consumers by state enterprise Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas for recovery of overpayments for gas, which accumulated from January 2013 through April 2014, is faulty. Energy experts arrived to the conclusion after calculating that Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas, company engaged in gas import and sales, returned in January-July 2015 only EUR 2.5 million of the EUR 34 million of overpayments. Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius says that box junctions – intersections marked in yellow squares prohibiting vehicles entry if there is congestion ahead – will save people hundreds of ours that are now being wasted in traffic jams. Lithuania's Civil Service Department (VTD) has completed implementing a project financed by the European Union – the Improvement of the Selection System of Civil Servants. It was recognised as one of top ten public governance improvement projects implemented in 2007-2013. In the first seven months of 2015 year-on-year, the deficit of the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) budget in Lithuania was by around 30% lower. Vilnius County Court has commenced bankruptcy proceedings against retail trade network Fresh Market. On 14 August Vilnius Airport saw off its two millionth passenger – this year such a number of passengers was achieved almost a month earlier compared to the last year. The first million was served in mid-May, and it took only three months to reach the second. In summer Vilnius Airport serves 10.5 thousand passengers on average daily. |
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