When the Montgolfier brothers invented the first hot-air balloon, they couldn’t have imagined that after more than 200 years people wouldn’t be surprised to see one in the sky. For the very first time, the largest by volume, special shaped hot air balloon will take to the skies in Lithuania. The 5,100 cubic metre craft has been created in the shape of a packet of “Activus” instant noodles and is available for anyone interested in feeling the exceptional connection with nature and seeing the world from a bird’s-eye view.

Lithuania's NanoAvionics has obtained funding from various funds for the development of a small satellite propulsion system and will be first in the world to use a propulsion system of this type during the LituanicaSAT-2 mission.

Some 230 Middle Eastern refugees relocated to Lithuania under the EU's resettlement program have already left the country.

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.