Latvia’s underground gas storage facility in Incukalns has enough gas for the winter season of 2023/2024, Climate and Energy Minister Kaspars Melnis assured, LSM reports. He said that gas transmission company Conexus Baltic Grid’s storage facility was now filled at 88.6% capacity, which is equivalent to over 20.2 TWh. Melnis noted that Latvia’s gas consumption…
The European Commission (EC) is not considering paying subsidies to cover the cost of transporting Ukrainian grain through Baltic ports, EC Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis stated. Speaking in an interview with BNS, Dombrovskis said that the EC may provide financing for removing administrative or infrastructure bottlenecks, however. Also, the EC supported Lithuania’s proposal to move customs,…
Sorting biodegradable waste will be mandatory in Latvia as of 1 January 2024, LSM reports. Currently, only around 25% of Latvian households sort their waste, according to a Norstat survey for waste management company Getlini EKO. The company has opened a website that allows residents to request that biowaste containers be placed at their address….
The total volume of freight transported in Latvia by all means of transport decreased in the first half of 2023, according to data from the Central Statistical Bureau, LSM reports. Cargo carried by land and pipeline transport totalled 41.8mn tonnes, which was 16.5% less than a year earlier. The volume of road freight alone amounted…
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is under pressure after ERR revealed that Keila-based logistics company Stark Logistics, in which her husband, Arvo Hallik, owns nearly 25% of shares, has continued to do business in Russia. Stark Logistics has shipped metal containers manufactured by Tallinn-based Metaprint to Russia. The majority owner of both Metaprint and Stark Logistics…
Lithuania’s state-owned LNG terminal operator, Klaipedos Nafta, plans to expand the annual regasification capacity of its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), the Independence, from 3.75 bcm to 5 bcm, Baltic News Network reports. Earlier, the company planned to expand the Klaipeda-based terminal’s capacity to 6.25 bcm. CEO Darius Silenskis expects the company to make…
Latvia’s state-owned railway company, Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDz), carried 7.746mn tonnes of rail cargo in the first half of 2023, which was 36.7% less than in the same period of 2022, LETA reports. The volume of international freight amounted to 7.041mn tonnes (down 39.2%), while domestic freight doubled to 705,000 tonnes. LDz board chairman Rinalds Plavnieks…
Estonia’s state-owned port operator, Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam), generated sales revenue of EUR 57mn in the first half of 2023, which was almost unchanged from a year earlier, ERR reports. The port’s adjusted EBITDA fell by 12% from a year earlier. Net profit stood at EUR 7mn, which was down 42% over a year….
A large fire broke out at Lithuanian waste management company Ecoservice’s sorting facility near the Gariunai marketplace in Vilnius on 5 August 2023, BNS reports. Mindaugas Sestokas, head of Ecoservice’s production division, said that non-hazardous waste had caught fire in the company’s sorting centre. Also, a fire broke out at state-owned hazardous waste management company…