E Energija, a Lithuanian energy group controlled by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and businessman Virginijus Strioga, plans to invest around 150 million euros into a wind farm in the district of Kelme, western Lithuania.

Some 124,000 newly-imported used cars were registered in Lithuania January-August of 2018, up 8.9% from 113,900, in January-June last year.

In the first seven months of 2018, all Baltic ports together received and shipped 90.44 mln tons of cargo, which was 2.6% or 2.297 tons more than in the respective period last year.

Maxima Grupe (Maxima Group), the largest retail group in the Baltics, will use all of the proceeds from last week's 300-million-euro bond offering to refinance short-term loans.

Baltic railway operators plan to expand their Amber Train intermodal freight train service, which has recently transported its second commercial shipment from Estonia to Lithuania, into Poland and Finland, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) said on Thursday.

The number of persons employed increased by 0.4% in both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the previous quarter, according to national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda plans to invest 407 mln euros in infrastructure in the next three years, including 94 mln euros in EU funds.

The Lithuanian solar energy industry forecasts that prices for the installation of solar modules and plants will decline after the European Union earlier this week ended its five-year-old restrictions on solar panel imports from China.

UAB Merko bustas, a company of the listed AS Merko Ehitus group, has started work on the Vilneles slenis residential development project on the outskirts of the Old Town of Vilnius, at the address Pakrascio st. 20, Merko told the stock exchange.

Maxima Grupe (Maxima Group), the largest retail group in the Baltics, on Thursday successfully placed its first 300-million-euro bond issue in international markets.