Lithuania on Wednesday concluded talks on frozen beef exports to China, opening the way for Lithuanian meat producers to look for export opportunities in the biggest Asian market.

TGW Northern Europe, a unit of Austria-based TGW Logistics Group, is setting up an engineering service centre in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas, with plans to hire up to 100 information technology and system automation engineers over the next few years.

Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas natural gas supply and trading company, part of the state-controlled Lietuvos Energija energy company group, has signed its first natural gas supply agreements with clients in Latvia.

The first day of the international two-day event “Rail Baltica Global Forum 2017 – Building a New Economic Corridor” that was held in Riga on April 24, 2017, gathered not only an impressive line-up of speakers, but also a great number of influential officials, politicians, decision-makers and experts from the three Baltic States and beyond. All of the attendees agreed that this was an important turning point in the project's development as the new Cost-Benefit analysis of the Global Project[1] was presented proving the value of the project and listing a number of benefits that the connectivity will bring.

Achemos Grupe (Achema Group), one of Lithuania's largest business conglomerates, may move its headquarters abroad.

Statistics Lithuania informs that in I quarter 2017, the volume of construction work carried out in the country amounted to EUR 361 mln at current prices, and against the previous period, seasonally and calendar adjusted, remained unchanged at constant prices (unadjusted – decreased by 50%).

Passengers immersed in their phones and the lack of systemized information on airports is what prompted the idea to create FLIO, a mobile app, which currently unites more than 900 airports of the world, including all three Lithuanian air gates Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga. A representative of the app developed in 2015 says that the app is the solution, which will meet all needs of Lithuanian Airports.

On May 21-June 2 NATO exercise Steadfast Cobalt annually organised by the NATO Signal Battalion will take place in Lithuania.

On the 11th of May the Police Department, under the Ministry of the Interior, launched a tender for Police Infrastructure PPP projects in Kaunas and Panevezys.

EU job-search aid worth €2,641,800 for 821 former ICT workers in Finland was approved by the European Parliament in a vote on Wednesday.