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Given the current market situation, a meeting was organized between the representatives of Klaipeda port and LJKKA to create new opportunities and maintain a competitive league in the Lithuanian logistics and transport sectors.

The following topics were discussed during the meeting:

• Encourage the maintenance of a uniform, competitive level of transport and charges for the longer term.
• Encourage producers to more actively import raw materials and export goods to other Western European countries.
• The problems of the sector in other markets are presented. According to the representatives, close co-operation with business, associations and other state structures needs to be established.
• During the meeting, five new alternative export directions to the West were proposed.
• Prospects for transporting semi-trailers to Turkey and Scandinavia are discussed.
• Aspects of intermodal transport permits are discussed.
• Statistical system (H52, H49)
• Issues related to customs procedures, VAT and transport insurance were discussed.
• The desire to create a competitive level playing field for Lithuanian carriers, freight forwarders and logistics.

Tautginas Sankauskas, Vice President of the Lithuanian National Association of Freight Forwarders and Logistics, participated in the meeting.