On 28 February a new public procurement competition for the design and design supervision services for the construction of the section from Kaunas Urban Node to Vilnius Urban Node was launched. The tender on behalf of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania is organized by the Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS.

The Government approved the draft resolution of the Ministry of Finance, which provided EUR 750, 000 of humanitarian aid to the Republic of Moldova. The decision has been taken after a formal appeal by the Republic of Moldova concerning the exodus of people provoked by V. Putin’s military actions in the Ukraine.

German sustainable construction company Nokera has signed an investment agreement with the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation, which plans to invest EUR 41.1 million in the construction of its new plant in Rudamina (Vilnius district). The plant is expected to create 300 new jobs over the next few years, of which approximately half will be dedicated to engineering workers with higher education.

• FX Global Code promotes robust, fair, liquid, open and appropriately transparent foreign exchange market
• European System of Central Banks publicly reaffirms commitment to updated Code
• Code first published in 2017 and updated mid-2021

Today, the Bank of Lithuania published the balance of payments for December 2021, which shows that:

The contractor to build local roads on the new Rail Baltica rail section Šveicarija-Žeimiai in Jonava district has been announced. The winning tender of EUR 6.6 million excl. VAT, in the procurement announced by the company LTG Infra responsible for the implementation of the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, was submitted by AB Eurovia Lietuva.

This year the Bank of Lithuania intends to carry out inspections of 26 financial market participants to assess their compliance with legal requirements. They have been selected in accordance with the principles of risk-based supervision and expert assessment. In addition, the Bank of Lithuania will select up to 50 financial market participants for thematic analyses.

• Lithuanian national promotional institution VIVA agrees guarantee with European Investment Bank under “European Guarantee Fund” (EGF) to finance local Mid-Caps
• The financing comes in the form of a link risk sharing guarantee that will support a portfolio of up to €50 million in new lending to Mid-Caps, and by extension, SMEs.
• The EGF is part of the €540 billion EU emergency package for businesses and workers, agreed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

Lithuania sees great potential in the North Sea-Baltic Corridor for cooperation with Poland and freight transport to Western European countries. Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Julius Skačkauskas expressed this position of Lithuania at the annual “Europe of the Carpathians” conference of the Carpathian countries taking place in Poland on 5-6 February.

A new procedure enabling adequate representation of Lithuanian carriers’ interests in bilateral negotiations regarding permits for international transport of goods and passengers is in force since January.