Lithuanian Railways after accession to European Union

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Lithuanian Railways after accession to European
Union

• Albertas imenas
• Development Director
• JSC Lithuanian Railways

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Changes of operational environment

• Integration into EU markets and growth of the
  Lithuanian economy (economical operational
  environment)
• Implementation of the requirements of the EU
  legislation (legal operational environment)
• EU financial support (financial operational
  environment)

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Revenues of Lithuanian railways
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Investments of Lithuanian Railways (LG)
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LG investments by purpose
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Lithuanian Railways operational indexes
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Challenges

• Integration into West European rail system
• Restructuring of JSC Lithuanian Railways
• Opening up the market (liberalization)

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Liberalization of Lithuanian rail market (1)

• Particularities of Lithuanian rail market
• Freight carriage 45 of the market
  (cost-effective) passenger carriage 1,5 of
  the market (loss-making)
• Freight transit from the non-EU countries
  prevails (East West direction)
• JSC Lithuanian Railways owned funds invested
  prevail

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Liberalization of Lithuanian rail market (2)

• Solutions proposed by JSC Lithuanian Railways
• European track gauge railways (Rail Baltica)
  shall be opened for competition according to EU
  legislation
• Internal carriages consistent liberalization
• Lithuanian national legislation shall provide
  that transit freight and passengers from non-EU
  countries shall be carried by national operator
  only

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