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Fitch Ratings has downgraded airBaltic’s Long-Term Issuer Default Rating to D, following the Latvian airline’s decision to enter Chapter 11 financial reorganisation in the United States. In Fitch’s methodology, a…
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have effectively moved the common operational horizon for Rail Baltica from 2030 to 2034, while narrowing the first-stage priority to a continuous Tallinn–Kaunas–Poland backbone. On 22…
Latvia is preparing its road transport legislation for the full implementation of the EU electronic Freight Transport Information system, or eFTI, from 9 July 2027. From that date, authorities across…
Tallinn Airport is starting a €66.6 million expansion of its passenger terminal after passenger volumes moved well beyond the capacity for which the existing building was designed. The terminal was…
Lithuania’s railway market is moving in two different directions: passenger traffic is growing while freight volumes continue to contract. Railways carried 3 million passengers in the first half of 2026,…
Estonia is considering postponing completion of its Rail Baltica section from 2030 to 2034 as part of the government’s 2027 budget talks. Prime Minister Kristen Michal said Estonia remains technically…
A Lithuanian court has given aviation maintenance company Aviabaltika until 31 December 2026 to demolish its buildings and remove the remaining materials from the territory of Kaunas Airport. The buildings…
Passenger traffic continued to grow across the Baltic airports in August, but the pace of expansion remained sharply uneven. Tallinn and Vilnius again showed the strongest growth, while Riga remained…
Poland has signed a PLN 4.08 billion net contract to modernise the Białystok–Ełk section of Rail Baltica, moving one of the largest remaining Polish sections of the corridor into the…
Global tugboat operator Boluda Towage has established a company in Lithuania as it explores possible operations at the Port of Klaipėda. Boluda Towage Lithuania was registered in Vilnius on September…
Baltics · Transport & Infrastructure · 9 September 2026 A joint Baltic tender for regional trains to operate on Rail Baltica has ended without a single compliant bid. Passenger operators…
Analysis · Transport & Logistics
Klaipėda handled more than 30 million tonnes of cargo in January–September 2026, up 5% year on year, while Latvia’s ports collectively recorded a 9.7% decline to…
Analysis · Transport & Logistics
TThis week airBaltic’s Chapter 11 reaches its next important checkpoint. Objections to the final DIP financing order are due on October 2, ahead of the final…
Analysis · Transport & Logistics
Estonia plans to complete the Tallinn–Pärnu section of Rail Baltica by 2032, followed by Soodevahe–Muuga in 2033 and Pärnu–Ikla in 2034, according to the timetable presented…
13,000–15,000 vehicles cross Latvia’s Pāternieki border checkpoint in an average month.
PhotoThe new 12-year concession is not a simple story of foreign operators entering Riga. RIX was already internationalised; the real shift is the dilution of the old TAV-centred commercial model. RIX Riga Airport has selected new long-term operators…
PhotoIn December 2024, the Latvian government changed Rail Baltica priorities because the project no longer had funding for everything. According to the service investigation discussed by the Cabinet last Tuesday, that decision should have stopped or at least…
PhotoLithuania moved ahead in passenger traffic, Riga retained its cargo advantage, and Tallinn continued reshaping its route map through low-cost expansion.
PhotoQ1 2026 revealed a clear divergence across Baltic ports. Latvia recorded broad-based contraction, Klaipėda posted strong growth, while Tallinn showed a winter-affected but structurally more stable pattern. The gap is visible in both total volumes and container performance,…
PhotoDFDS will increase capacity on the Karlshamn–Klaipėda corridor by introducing the RoPax vessel from mid-September 2026, replacing Optima Seaways. The move raises both passenger and freight capacity on one of the key Baltic Sea links between Sweden and…
PhotoLithuania’s airports posted record results, but their leadership was removed. At the same time, Latvia is trying to borrow from the Lithuanian playbook. What was happening in Baltic aviation in the second half of March? Several important developments…
PhotoBaltic cargo flows diverge: Klaipėda grows, Latvia restructures, Estonia signals new transit
PhotoBaltic fuel prices rise as wholesale market spikes in early March — why Tallinn shows the highest petrol prices
Photo🇱🇻airBaltic: aircraft keep arriving
Rail Baltica in Early 2026: Three Speeds, One Corridor
🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪Baltic Rail Freight Restructuring Accelerates (Update)
