Press clippings can be found in the menu to the right.
Interesting articles related to the project
19 October, 2012
TRACECA countries believes in foreign investments for continued
developing of the route. Find out more
here.
12 September, 2011
Lithuania creates ITS Development Association states the
Lithuanian Ministry for Transport. Find out more
here.
9 September, 2011
Belarus invites Qatari businessmen to invest in transport
projects. The possability of a logistics centre in Orsha in the
Vitebsk Region was discussed. Find out more
here.
18 July, 2011
European Commission's Vice Presiden Siim Kallas discussed e.g.
collective talks with Russia to improve the status for smaller
countries at his visit in Lithuania last week. Read more about the
commissioners visit
here.
5 July, 2011
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and Ukraine has
signed a joint declaration on advancing the cooperation regarding
the East-West Transport Corridor. Find out more
here.
2 May, 2011
IT services essential to lower rail transport costs? Read more
here.
29 April, 2011
Lithuania invites neighbors to discuss development of the
corridor between Lithuania, Belarus and Russia with further
extensions to China. Find out more
here.
20 April, 2011
A test train has been sent by DB Schenker the Euro-Asian
landbridge from China through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and
Poland to Germany. The journey took 16 days, about half the time
the sea-route would have taken. Read more
here.
7 April, 2011
Lithuanian representatives emphasized the development of green
transport corridors for more sustainable transports at OSCE meeting
in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Find out more
here.
29 March, 2011
The European Commission has published the White paper 2011 on
transport and outlines a roadmap for 2050. Get the white paper here.
14 March, 2011
To early to introduce low-sulphur regulations in shipping.
Impossibly to meet the goals for 2015. Read more
here.
7 March, 2011
Asia-Europe shipping request direct deepsea Baltic-services.
Read more here.
23 February, 2011
Economic cooperation between Scandinavia and the Baltic states
will intensify the years to come said the Swedish Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt during a press-conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Find out more
here.
4 February, 2011
Lithuania and Ukraine Ministers discussed developments of the
railway project "Viking". Find out more
here.
25 January, 2011
Does freight traffic efficiency need dispatching systems? Find
out more here.
19 January, 2011
Why is railway transportation an important mode in the context
of creating a low carbon society? Read the view of Philippa
Edmunds, Freight on Rail manager, here.
10 January, 2011
Improvments in rail and road infrastrucutre increase transports
on land from China according to ifw. Read more here.
17 December, 2010
The new TEN-T network will determine freight traffic improvement
according to Railway PRO. Find out more here.
10 December, 2010
A transport conference on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea
Region has been held in Vilnius to discuss the progress. Read more
about the conference
here.
23 November, 2010
Cargo handling result continue to grow in Klaipeda. Find out
more about a comparison between the Eastern Baltic ports
here.
19 November, 2010
Nordic and Baltic economic cooperation to intensify. Increased
exports from Lithuania to Sweden. Find out more
here.
11 November, 2010
Read this interesting interview with Johannes Ludewig, CER
Executive Director, about intermodal corridors, click here.
1 November, 2010
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting to
discuss the potential of Lithuanian and Chinese transport
cooperation. Read more about the meeting
here.
26 October, 2010
Lithuania and China should develop concrete cooperation and
investement projects said President of the Republic of Lithuania
Dalia Grybauskaite after meeting with the Vice President
of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. Find out more
about their meeting
here.
13 October, 2010
The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications and its
Permanent Secretary Harri Pursiainen have won this year's eSafety
Award in recognition of Finland's National Strategy for Intelligent
Transport, drafted by Mr Pursiainen as rapporteur. Read more about
the strategy and the price here.
7 October, 2010
The Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius spoke about
freight transport between China and Lithuania at the Asia-Europe
summit in Brussels. Find out more about the Prime Minister's speech
and the summit
here.
13 September, 2010
Natural gas, the bridge to CO2-neutral transportation? Find out
more here.
2 September, 2010
The first commercial supertanker has succeded in traversing the
North-East Passage. Read about the supertanker Baltica
here.
20 August, 2010
Increased export and inport growth in the Baltic Sea Region
since last year. Find out more here.
6 August, 2010
Energy, transport and research infrastructure is one of the most
important areas of cooperation and integration in the Baltic Sea
Region according to the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Audronius Azubalis. Read the whole article
here.
30 July, 2010
Why is Latvia not using its potential when the transport sector
in Lithuania always goes a step further? Read this interesting
interview with Igor Kabashkin, president of the Institute of
Transport and Communications in Latvia, here.
23 July, 2010
Will the Northeast Passage be an alternate way? The Arctic ice
may reach all-time low according to a Russian environmental agency.
Find out more here.
16 July, 2010
The implemention of the EU's Baltic Sea Region Strategy was
discussed during a meeting in Brussels co-organized by the
Nordic Council of Ministers. Read more about the meeting and the
discussions here.
9 July, 2010
Belarus and Lithuania have signed a communication on economic
cooperation, including strengthened transport cooperation by
implementing the East-West transport corridor project. Read the
article by clicking
here.
2 July, 2010
Innovation is the key to safer and "greener" transportation
according to a report from the International Transport Forum (ITF).
Find out more by clicking here.
24 June, 2010
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet wants to promote trade and
cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. Read about the views here.
18 June, 2010
Article from North-America exploring views on intermodality.
Read the article by clicking here.
11 June, 2010
The final stakeholder conference on the Danube Strategy has been
held. The strategy follows the example of the Baltic Sea
Strategy and includes the creation of a co-modal transport system.
Read a bit more about the strategy here.
4 June, 2010
News from Lithuania on the topic overcoming Baltic energy
isolation. Green transport corridors are mentioned as one
possibility in making energy efficient decisions. The article can
be found here.
28 May, 2010
Some views from North America on Shipping the green
way. The article can be found here.
21 May, 2010
An article in Russian about project partner Lithuanian Railways.
A basic translation of the article can be found here.
14 May, 2010
Article titled Intermodal Transit: A Better Way To Ship
on the website Area Development Online can be found here.
7 May, 2010
Short news from Klaipeda State Sea Port Authority about their
participation in a seminar on international transport projects. A
basic translation of the article can be found here.
30 April, 2010
Read about Intermodal Offers A Greener Way of Shipping
at Logistics Today. The article can be found here.
23 April, 2010
Article titled Intermodal transport - the key to effective
management of logistics from the Slovak Spectator, can be
found here.
16 April, 2010
Scania group explores green corridors in an article and the East
West Transport Corridor is presented. Read the article on Scania's
webpage by clicking here.
9 April, 2010
Article with the title Could EU-funded study herald the dawn
of a new transport era? can be found here.
