![]() EconomyThe Lithuanian Airports Have Presented the Results for the Year 2016: the Number of Passengers Has Surged to Record Levels of 4.8 Million2017-01-17, 14:42The year 2016 was the record year for the Lithuanian Airports: 4.8 million passengers were served and the number of flights reached 52 thousand. The greatest increase was demonstrated by Palanga Airport where the number of passengers has surged even by 60 per cent and reached 233 thousand. Estonia plans for the prime ministers of the Baltic states to sign the deal on the European-gauge railway Rail Baltica project, however, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is not sure about the signing. Statistics Lithuania informs that based on provisional data, on 1 January 2017, the resident population of Lithuania totalled 2 mln 849 th. - Lithuania's central government and local authorities last year collected a total of 7.572 bln euros in budget revenue, exceeding the annual revenue target by almost 237 mln euros, or 3.2%. New light-vehicle registrations in the Baltic States increased more than 14% in 20162017-01-14, 09:41New light-vehicle (M1&N1) registrations in the Baltic States increased by 6.5% to 15’772 units in IV quarter 2016, that show analysis of fully-processed registrations’ data performed by AV Automotive Research / AutoTyrimai, based on source data obtained from Regitra (Lithuania), CSDD (Latvia) and Maanteeamet (Estonia). Felit, the operator of the Ikea store in Vilnius, posted 56.992 mln euros in revenue in the past financial year, up by 24.4%, from 45.829 mln euros, in the earlier year that opens in September and closes next August. Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will cooperate with Poland's OT Logistics, one of Europe's biggest logistic companies. Bank of Lithuania will strengthen competition and eliminate administrative barriers in financial market2017-01-11, 16:12The Board of the Bank of Lithuania approved the strategic directions for the activities in 2017–2020 and newly defined the organisation’s mission and specific objectives. After implementing them, the Bank of Lithuania would become one of the most effective central banks in the Nordic and Baltic region, the Lithuanian central bank informs. The annual apartment price growth in the major cities of Lithuania was 5.5% in 20162017-01-10, 09:44The Ober-Haus Lithuanian apartment price index (OHBI), which records changes in apartment prices in the five major Lithuanian cities (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys), increased by 0.4% in December 2016. The annual apartment price growth in the major cities of Lithuania was 5.5% (the annual apartment price growth in November 2016 was 5.2%). Lithuania's y-o-y retail sales growth rate remains among the highest in the European Union, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on Friday. |
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