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2023 01 17#DviratisUkrainai: the Ministry of Transport and Communications invites to donate bicycles to Ukrainians
The Ministry of Transport and Communications is launching a kindness campaign #DviratisUkrainai — from 17 January to 11 March, all the residents of Lithuania are invited to donate new and used bicycles (without major defects) for both adults and children to the people of Ukraine.

Today, Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis met with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia Levan Davitashvili.

The expert working group of three Baltic states has prepared key proposals for railway infrastructure capacity allocation after the launch of operations on the Rail Baltica railway line which is currently under construction.

Following the presentation to the public of the special plan for the Rail Baltica section Kaunas–Vilnius, there has been a great deal of involvement of interested parties — as many as 470 enquiries and proposals regarding the revision of the special plan.

LTG Infra, the company implementing the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, has announced a tender for the infrastructure of the Kaunas passenger station territory. In the coming days, the design tender for the railway infrastructure of regional stations in Kaišiadorys and Vievis will be announced.

The Ministers of Transport of the Baltic States met in Tallinn on Monday and agreed to strengthen cooperation to improve mutual and international logistics links, and to discuss the possibility of launching passenger train services between ...

Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis is leaving this Sunday for a meeting with his two Baltic counterparts in Tallinn.

Starting a working visit to Poland on Wednesday, Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis met with Catherine Trautmann, the European Coordinator for Rail Baltica, to discuss the progress and implementation of this European standard-gauge railway project in Lithuania.

Last year, 120 people died on Lithuanian roads, which is the lowest number of road fatalities in the entire period of independence. In 2022, there were 43 road deaths per million inhabitants, a rate that for the first time managed to catch up with the European Union average in recent years.

On Tuesday, the Minister of Transport and Communications is leaving for Poland to participate in an international conference in Warsaw, which will emphasise the importance of the railway sector for the safety of Europe.

On Friday, Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis had a meeting with the heads of the companies implementing Rail Baltica and urged them to accelerate the construction of the European gauge railway line in Lithuania in order to connect Lithuania and the Baltic states to Western Europe.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications and LTG Link, the passenger transportation company of the Lithuanian Railways Group, have signed a passenger transport agreement for the period between 2023 and 2032 aimed at creating even more convenient conditions for rail travel.

Today, the Government endorsed the proposal of the Ministry of Transport and Communications to ratify the Cape Town Convention, which will facilitate business conditions for Lithuanian aviation and increase the competitiveness of Lithuanian aviation companies in the global market.