Crowdestate.eu, the leading Nordic real estate crowdfunding platform, will publish its first Latvian investment opportunity on Friday morning. A 2 - year subordinated loan will be paying 15% annual interest to its investors.

Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Company, one of Russia's largest coal exporters, has started hauling crude to Poland via Lithuania. By the end of this year, up to 250,000 tons of coal should be transported via Lithuania by rail.

Over past six months roughly 200 combat and medlift Mercedes-Benz GD vehicles, trucks, and other military vehicles were brought from the Netherlands to Lithuania to supplement and update the fleet of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. On August 18 a meeting of Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas and Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lithuania HE Bert van der Lingen will take place in Kaunas to celebrate the successful defence cooperation between the new countries.

Lithuanian mobile market leader Tele2 together with leading global telecommunications equipment company Nokia brought 5G-ready technology to the Baltics for the first time. 4.3 Gigabit per second mobile internet speed were reached in this pre-standard 5G demonstration, using commercially available Nokia equipment.

The private company AS Edelaraudtee that discontinued operating domestic non-electric passenger train services in Estonia in 2014 has sold one of its old diesel trains to a Lithuanian company that is about to deliver it to a buyer in Tajikistan.

This autumn, Lithuanian Airports is to hold its first Investor Conference where potential investors and interested parties will be introduced to the concept and structure of the Lithuanian Airports Concession. The event, to be held at Vilnius Airport on 21st September, will be hosted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Lithuanian Airports.

Viciunai Group, a company owned by Visvaldas Matijosaitis, the mayor of Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas, has signed a hotel franchise agreement with Hilton Worldwide.

The director of a Lithuanian sheep rearing company says that sheep numbers have increased in the country and expects that the spreading of African Swine Fever will force more farmers to switch to sheep raising.

Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) informs that in 2015 number of births grew in all three Baltic states. Compared to 2014, in 2015 the greatest increase in the number of newborn was registered in Lithuania – of 1 106 newborn or 3.6 %, whereas in Estonia the increase accounted for 356 newborn or 2.6 % and in Latvia – for 233 newborn or 1.1 %.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Friday that Minsk should not have hopes of selling electricity from the unsafe plant.