Lithuanian Railways

LTG Group implements the 'FREE Rail' program, aimed at full integration with Europe, according to the railway portal Railway Supply.

The management team of the leading passenger transport company LTG Link was joined by professionals in their fields: Voitech Makovskij, head of international development, and Indrė Kisielienė, who started to lead the company's corporate activities.

Lithuanian Railways and Ukrainian Railways strengthen cooperation: seeking full integration with Europe Lithuanian Railways (LTG), which seeks full integration with Europe, signed a Memorandum of Intent with Ukrainian Railways in Munich on 9 May — Europe Day.

LTG will test internet provided by Starlink satellites on their trains. A three-month pilot run of the LTG Link train is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of this year using Starlink equipment from Space X, Railway Supply magazine reports, citing RailTech.

During the visit to Poland, the Ministries of Infrastructure and Transport of Lithuania and Ukraine signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of transport and logistics.

During March, LTG Cargo rejected 506 applications for rail transportation. Most of them (258) came from neighboring Belarus and concerned, among other things, state-controlled companies that tried to ship their goods through the railway network and ports of Lithuania.

In 2022, LTG Cargo customers saved almost 70 million kilograms of carbon dioxide by carrying out intermodal rail transport between Lithuania and Western countries.

Lithuanian company LTG Cargo, seeking to block any attempts to circumvent sanctions on the export or import of goods from Russia and Belarus, is changing the rules for the preparation of shipping documents.

Lithuania closes the movement of trains through the Stasylos-Benyakoni railway border crossing from February 16. This is reported by Railway Supply magazine with reference to reform.

The European Court upheld the court decision imposing a fine of about 20 million euros on the Lithuanian state railways for dismantling the tracks of the Orlen oil refinery in Mažeikiai.

Lithuanian Railways has signed a new contract with ABB for the supply of a 25 kV power grid for a 100% carbon-neutral railway line, on which electric trains will be powered by renewable energy sources.

Through the establishment of an X-ray control system, Lithuania has strengthened control over freight trains traveling from Belarus to the territory of the country and to the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.