Date: 28.03.2019.

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Pasazieru Vilciens banned from concluding train supply contract with Skoda Vagonka

28.03.2019

The Public Procurement Monitoring Bureau has banned Pasazieru Vilciens rail passenger carrier from concluding a train supply contract with the Czech company Skoda Vagonka, according to information released by the Public Procurement Monitoring Bureau, informed LETA/BNS.

Keyword tags: EU – Baltic States, Latvia, Legislation, Railways

Hard-to-fill ICT vacancies: how countries compare

28.03.2019

During 2017, 9 % of EU enterprises recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists and 5 % reported having hard-to-fill vacancies for jobs requiring relevant ICT skills. In other words, over half (53%) of all enterprises that recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists had difficulties in filling these vacancies, informed Eurostat,

Savings in banks going up

28.03.2019

Stable economic growth has enabled Latvia's businesses and households to save more on their bank accounts. In the circumstances of rapidly increasing compensation of employees, both consumption and deposits with banks are growing. w

Riga International Coach Terminal sees 7.6% growth of passengers in two months

28.03.2019

During the first two months of this year Riga International Coach Terminal saw the number of passengers grow 7.6% compared to the same period in 2017 to 250,208 people, the coach terminal said LETA/BNS.

Lithuania's retail sales grow 6.4% in Jan-Feb y-o-y

28.03.2019

Based on provisional data, in February 2019, the turnover (VAT excluded) of retail trade enterprises amounted to EUR 823.3 mln at current prices, and against January 2019, seasonally and calendar adjusted, grew by 1.1% at constant prices.

28.03.2019