Latvia: LDz Cargo opens new branch office in Estonia

Latvia’s state-owned rail freight operator, LDz Cargo, has opened a branch in Estonia, DELFI reports. The new branch employs four people. The company’s strategic objective is to enter new markets and increase its rail freight volume to boost revenue. LDz Cargo began providing freight transportation services in Estonia in January 2023. The company has an…

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Latvia: Latvian Railways to auction 5,000 tonnes of ferrous scrap metal

Latvia’s state-owned railway company, Latvijas Dzelzcels (Latvian Railways), has announced an auction of 5,000 tonnes of ferrous scrap metal on 12 July 2023, DELFI reports. The starting price will be EUR 300 per tonne. The items available for bidding include used railway rails of various lengths, turnout parts, rail fasteners, car retarders, and various rolling…

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Latvia: Political activist spreading disinfo on Rail Baltica project

The Latvian political activist, Valentins Jeremejevs, has released several videos in which he claims that 2,000 families in Latvia will be evicted from their homes due to the construction of the Rail Baltica railway, Re:Baltica reports. Jeremejevs’s most popular video on TikTok has been viewed by almost 150,000 people and on Facebook by 2,300 people….

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