Baltic Airports Are Growing as Airlines Pull Back
Riga remains the largest individual airport in the Baltic states. But by the end of summer, the more important question is no longer who is first by passenger numbers.
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DataWho is the main tourist in the Baltics? A Baltic resident.
In the second quarter of 2026, tourist accommodation establishments across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia recorded about 5.48 million overnight stays.
PhotoWhat Selective Default Means — and Whether airBaltic Can Make It Through the Crisis
S&P Global Ratings downgraded airBaltic to SD, or Selective Default, and lowered the rating on its €380 million senior secured bonds due in 2029 to D.
PhotoairBaltic’s Distressed-Debt Gamble: Who Wins If It Survives?
Rescuing the airline could reward late bond buyers, protect Riga’s hub and preserve capacity for Lufthansa Group.
PhotoLithuania Calls It a Dairy Crisis as Processors Expand — While E-Piim Collapses in Estonia
he same downturn is producing different outcomes across Baltic dairy:
PhotoActive Restructuring Is Beginning in the Baltic Postal Market — Who Could Be the First to Exit?
DHL eCommerce has agreed to acquire Venipak’s companies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
PhotoKlaipėda Expands Its Lead as Baltic Port Traffic Diverges in H1 2026
The first half of 2026 widened the gap between the principal ports of the Baltic States.
PhotoRail Baltica on 21 July 2026: What Has Actually Been Built in Each Baltic State?
Rail Baltica is visibly under construction across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But the three countries have reached materially different stages.
PhotoBaltic Airports in H1 2026: Is the Baltic Region Attracting More Passengers?
Riga remains the largest individual airport in the Baltic states, serving 3.28 million passengers in the first half of 2026, yet its traffic declined by 1%.
PhotoBALTIC FOCUS: Baltic Check Point — 01/07–15/07
The first half of July brought several developments that changed the operating environment for business, infrastructure and public policy across the Baltic region. — Lithuania has a new government, but not a new economic course. — airBaltic is…
PhotoairBaltic’s August Test: Can Latvia Demand Commercial Responsibility While Ignoring Its Own Role as Controlling Shareholder?
Asked about airBaltic’s future in a 16 June interview on Latvian Television, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said that the state had to “stop acting as an ATM”. The demand is understandable. airBaltic needs a credible business plan, a…
PhotoWho will be hit by the EU’s new €3 e-commerce duty?
Not only online shoppers. The new charge reaches rail corridors, Polish warehouses, Baltic parcel operators and the logistics system built around low-value imports.
PhotoBaltic Focus Map: 15–21 June 2026
Ahead of the midsummer slowdown, the Baltic map remained unusually dense: central-bank forecasts, political resets, security-linked regulation, new energy and industrial capacity, pan-Baltic M&A, tighter credit controls and defence-tech signals all pointed to a region still being redrawn.
PhotoThe Baltics in 2026: recovery turns into a test of the next growth model
The Baltic economies are expected to keep growing in 2026, but the regional baseline is no longer a straightforward rebound story. The regional context is not neutral. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are small open EU economies, but they…
PhotoCapMan buys Hansabuss — and a place inside Latvia’s regional mobility system
Hansa Group has agreed to sell Hansabuss, the largest private operator of public bus lines in the Baltics, to CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II,
PhotoBaltic Focus Week Map
Baltic Focus Week Map, 8–14 June 2026: the week’s key Baltic economic signals in numbers.
PhotoBaltic power is getting greener. Why that does not mean prices simply fall
The Baltic market is moving from a simple generation story to a flexibility market: grid capacity, balancing reserves, hydro dispatch, battery storage and the ability to shift electricity between cheap and expensive hours are becoming central to price…
PhotoWhat Operating Environment Is Latvia Selling to Foreign Investors?
Baltic Focus analysisEditor: Galina Molochkova Riga has just hosted a dense run of investor-facing events built around stability, innovation, competitiveness and aftercare. But Latvia’s domestic administrative signal raises a practical question: what kind of state will foreign investors…
PhotoLatvia’s €1bn sustainability bond shows Baltic stability is no longer cheap
Over the past month, all three Baltic sovereigns have returned to international debt markets with benchmark-size euro issues
PhotoA Choice That Previously Did Not Exist: Baltic Agriculture, NGTs and the Climate Shock
By early June 2026, the Baltic debate around GMOs no longer fits the old “GMO or non-GMO” frame. The formal language in Brussels has moved to CRISPR, new genomic techniques, seed transparency, patent disclosure, organic coexistence and the…
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