Towards greater competitiveness

During the last years numerous changes took place in the Baltic Sea region which are among other things related to the EU enlargement. The changes are also quite evident in the city of Liepaja.

The port of Liepaja has always been like a bridge between east and west and nowadays is trying to be cosidered as a hub ports in the Baltic Sea. Today the port of Liepaja fulfils all conditions to become a growing centre of logistics and development. One of the latest investment projects is Dan Store dry bulk cargo terminal which was officially opened in September 2005. One of the owners of company Dan Store is the world scale company Bunge - the world's leading agriculture and food processing company with experience in global trading and that is great achievement to have such a company operating in our port.

One of the key issues of considering Liepaja as their place of investment Poul Schroeder, Bunge European Region Director, mentioned its geographical position in the centre of the Baltic port infrastructure and management as well as proximity to the rapidly growing centre of agriculture and grain cultivation.

Since 3 October the new Liepaja webpage is available for everyone. It is designed according to the main principles of portal which besides already existing electronic services will allow for municipality to implement several new electronic services for internet users until 2007. The information provided on the webpage is available in four languages - Latvian, Russian, English and German and is set up in seven basic sections where visitors can find information regarding city, culture, tourism, entertainment, business, society and local government. Here you can find also the latest statistics of different spheres, useful information about investment climate.Tourists and other visitors may appreciate the electronic map of the city and other information regarding entertainment. Since the opening of new webpage www. liepaja.lv it has been visited by people from over 50 different countries.

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