Swedish-owned Lithuanian soft leather and tapestry furniture manufacturer Scapa Baltic is planning to build a factory in Belarus.

Vilnius will for the first time host an external meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) on June 5 and 6, the Bank of Lithuania said.

Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will begin to transport Lithuania-bound postal items from China within the country's territory for the first time this year, with the first trial shipment scheduled for May.

The tanker delivered a new shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Norway to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on Wednesday, Klaipedos Nafta, the LNG terminal's operator.

The Arctic Princess, the only large LNG carrier scheduled to arrive in Klaipeda in April, delivered the cargo for the fertilizer manufacturer Achema, the country's single largest gas consumer.

The vessel came from the Norwegian port of Melkoya, where Equinor (former Statoil) has a LNG facility, according to the vessel positions tracking websites Marinetraffic.com and Myshiptracking.com.

"A new cargo has arrived. It is the Arctic Princess," Orinta Barkauskaite, head of communications at Klaipedos Nafta, confirmed.

Arturas Ketlerius, spokesman for the state energy group Lietuvos Energija, said Lietuvos Energijos Tiekimas (LET) was not the recipient of the cargo.

According to the Klaipeda LNG terminal's publicly-available schedule for 2019, LNG regasification capacities have been booked by LET and Achema.

Achema has booked 2.28 bn kilowatt-hours (kWh) of regasification capacities for April and May, an amount delivered by more than two large vessels.

In late March, the Arctic Princess delivered a cargo for LET, which purchases gas under a long-term contract with Equinor.

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The tanker delivered a new shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Norway to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on Wednesday, Klaipedos Nafta, the LNG terminal's operator.

The Arctic Princess, the only large LNG carrier scheduled to arrive in Klaipeda in April, delivered the cargo for the fertilizer manufacturer Achema, the country's single largest gas consumer.

The vessel came from the Norwegian port of Melkoya, where Equinor (former Statoil) has a LNG facility, according to the vessel positions tracking websites Marinetraffic.com and Myshiptracking.com.

"A new cargo has arrived. It is the Arctic Princess," Orinta Barkauskaite, head of communications at Klaipedos Nafta, confirmed.

Arturas Ketlerius, spokesman for the state energy group Lietuvos Energija, said Lietuvos Energijos Tiekimas (LET) was not the recipient of the cargo.

According to the Klaipeda LNG terminal's publicly-available schedule for 2019, LNG regasification capacities have been booked by LET and Achema.

Achema has booked 2.28 bn kilowatt-hours (kWh) of regasification capacities for April and May, an amount delivered by more than two large vessels.

In late March, the Arctic Princess delivered a cargo for LET, which purchases gas under a long-term contract with Equinor.

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Lithuania's state run airport operator Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) serviced 13,400 flights and over 1.32 mln passengers in the first quarter, up 3% and 7% respectively from the same period last year.

Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will begin to transport Lithuania-bound postal items from China within the country's territory for the first time this year, with the first trial shipment scheduled for May.

The franchise holder for IKEA in the Baltic countries and Iceland is about to establish a digital development team in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to speed up digital transition for the company in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland.

Polish transport and logistics company Laude is setting up its business in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas and has established a new company, Laude Baltica.

US-based pharmaceutical wholesale giant McKesson has confirmed to that it is setting up a financial service center in Vilnius and has already established a company, McKesson Business Services Lithuania.

A total of 27,700 real estate units changed owners via purchase and sale transactions in Lithuania in the first quarter of 2019, a rise of 6.4% y-o-y, according to preliminary data from the Center of Registers informed.