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The Black Hawk 2024 exercise, which will run in the central city of Kaišiadorys, will place armed members of the organisation under the control of the commandant’s offices, which would take over local administration in case of war.
“Such exercises aim to coordinate and test in practice how we can operate alongside other riflemen, officials from other institutions, and the local community in an emergency or under a threat of war,” LŠS commander Linas Idzelis said in a press release.
As part of the drills, checkpoints will be set up at various locations in Kaišiadorys, with the riflemen securing key locations in the town. They will also train in providing emergency medical aid, transporting the wounded, and enforcing curfew regulations.
The exercise will also involve the Kaisiadorys District Municipality's Emergency Operations Center, the Lithuanian Air Force, the National Defence Volunteer Force (KASP), and the Military Medical Service, as well as the town's police and fire and rescue officers.
The three-day exercises will see uniformed and armed members of LŠSpatrolling Kaisiadorys and using mock ammunition.
The 321 km section of 1 520-mm gauge railway between Kaišiadorys and Draugystės station in Klaipėda is to be electrified. The new infrastructure will comply with all relevant EU regulations and allow for speeds of up to 160 km/h.
Work involves the design and installation of power lines at minimum heights of 5.75 m in stations and on open sections and 6 m where the tracks are on different elevations.
Other elements to be designed and installed are power supply infrastructure, including foundations, poles and wires; traction substations; autotransformers; power networks; and 110-kV overhead cables connecting traction substations with the national electrical grid.
Further activities entail adaptation of signalling, traffic control and telecommunications systems.
Along with Kaišiadorys and Klaipėda, the project will be implemented in the municipalities of Jonava, Kėdainiai, Radviliškis, Šiauliai, Telšiai, Plungė and Kretinga.
A component of the core Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), the Kaišiadorys- Klaipėda section is part of the 423.9 km line linking Klaipėda with the Lithuania-Belarus border. More than 60 % of rail freight transported to the Port of Klaipėda goes via this line, which is also used by over 38 % of all railway passengers in Lithuania.
Although electrification of railway lines is a key provision of the TEN-T development guidelines, Lithuania currently only has 157.7 km of electrified line, or 8 % of its railway network, compared with an average of 52.7 % for all EU Member States in 2016.
Due the low level of electrification, the country’s railways consume over 2.177 terajoules of diesel a year. The Klaipėda-Kaišiadorys section only uses diesel traction at present. The resulting emissions account for 3 % of all greenhouse gases emitted by the Lithuanian transport sector.
Electrification of the section will contribute to the shift from using fossil fuels to renewable energy in the rail sector, thereby cutting air pollution. It will increase the efficiency of the railways by reducing expenses related to fuel and maintenance of rolling stock.
The implementation of environmentally friendly measures should increase the attractiveness of the railways for passenger and goods transport.
Geopolitical issues such as economic sanctions against Belarus are the main factor that could prevent traffic volumes from keeping pace with forecasted future traffic flows.
While the effects of any sanctions are likely to be short-lived, to ensure that long-term demand does not lag behind the forecasts, plans are in place to diversify freight flows and develop new services.
Total investment for the project “Electrification of the railway section Kaišiadorys – Klaipėda (Draugystės station)” is EUR 383 300 953, with the EU’s Cohesion Fund contributing EUR 158 023 509 through the “EU Structural Funds Investments” Operational Programme for the 2014-2020 programming period. The investment falls under the priority “Railways (TEN-T core network)”.
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