Regional Industrial Leader

  • No.1 region for green field industrial projects in the Baltics
  • Second most attractive city after the capital for people to relocate
  • Second largest city in FDI per capita after the capital, Vilnius. Read more.
  • 918 million EUR in Direct Foreign Investments
  • Largest automotive equipment production in the region with 1.683 billion EUR in export from the Klaipėda region
  • 12% of the country’s total GDP
  • 14% of the country’s total export.
  • Major industry sectors: ship building and repair, wood processing and furniture, transportation and logistics, food, PET/plastics.

Top Foreign Investors in Klaipeda in 2010:

INVESTOR
 ORIGIN COMPANY INDUSTRY SECTOR
DFDS Seaways
 Denmark DFDS LISCO, JC
 Sea transport
Philip Morris International

 Switzerland Philip Morris Lietuva, JSC
 Tobacco products
Indorama Ventures

 Thailand Orion Global PET, JSC
 PET
BLRT Grupp

 Estonia Vakarų Baltijos laivų statykla, JC
 Shipbuilding
SCT Lubricants

 Germany Aransa, JSC
 Oil and lubricants

Heidelberg Cement

Germany

 Heidelbergcement Klaipeda, JSC
 Cement distri­bution facility
NEO GROUP
 Ukraine NEO GROUP, JSC
 PET resin manu­facturing
Statoil
 Norway Mestilla, JSC
 Biodiesel production
Terminal Invest­ment Limited
 Netherlands Klaipėdos Smeltė, JC
 Stevedoring company