Klaipėda’s Free Economic Zone (FEZ) secured five awards, including one for Quick Launch opportunities, at the Global Free Zones of the Year 2017 rankings published by Financial Times’ fDi Intelligence service annually since 2010. Klaipėda FEZ has been also recognized for its specialism in the plastics industry, contribution to the national economy, energy efficiency and expansion of its investors.

Kelprojektas, Lithuania's transport infrastructure engineering company, has won a contract of nearly 900,000 euros for Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) for expropriation of land in the public interest, i.e., the Rail Baltica railway.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that people are more sensitive about inflation than they should be, adding that the price hike would not be steep enough to outdo growing salaries.

The freight traffic at the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda, which boosted the cargo handling volume by 5 percent to 31.1 million tons this year and by 6% in September alone, was mainly raised by bulk cargo, says the port's CEO Arvydas Vaitkus.

Statistics Lithuania informs that in September 2017, against August, prices for the total industrial production sold increased by 0.8%, refined petroleum products excluded – decreased by 0.3%. The overall price change was influenced by a 5.4% increase in prices for refined petroleum products.

Litgas, the gas trade arm of the state energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), will sell gas to Poland's gas supply company Duon. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be transported from Klaipeda's new LNG distribution station on auto gas carriers.

Lithuania's monthly inflation was 1% in September, as prices of some consumer goods and services went up after two months of being flat, Statistics Lithuania said on Monday.

Ahlstrom, global high performance fiber-based materials company headquartered in Finland, is closing its service center in Vilnius after three years of operation, sacking all of the staff. The company said the changes had to do with decentralization of the group's services, not Lithuania's investment environment.

The budget surplus of Lithuania's social insurer Sodra is expected to reach 218 million euros in 2018, seven times the surplus planned for this year.

Vakaru Baltijos Laivu Statykla (Western Baltija Shipbuilding), a Lithuanian group indirectly controlled by Estonia's BLRT Grupp, will recover the excise duty paid for fuel supplied to a freight ship it built back in 2013, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania has said in a final ruling.