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Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry").

Aspects of transport


The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (for example, the use of tolls or gasoline taxes).

Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.

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AD REM - Air cargo, customs brokerage, customs warehousing and terminal services, local distribution and insurance.

Air Lithuania - State - owned regional airline.

Autostartas Ltd - Specializes in freight haulage by road to Western Europe, Baltic countries, Russia and other CIS countries.
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Bega, Private Stevedoring Company - Fast-growing company based in Klaipeda port, specializes in fertilizer and cement handling operations.

BretaLita - International French-Lithuanian shipping company, specialised in ground transportation services between the former USSR and the European Community.

Kapratas - A private capital auto transportation company.

Kauno Transekspedicija - Cargo transportation by road transport to almost all Western and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia from door to door with CARNET TIR. Also doing loads transportation by sea and air.

Klaipedos Translit Ltd - Private shipping agency offering freight forwarding, ship chartering, managing repairs and port authority liaison services. Located in Klaipeda.
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Kursiu Linija - A dedicated container liner operator offering a regular liner service linking Baltic ports with the rest of the world.

Linava - The Lithuanian National Road Carriers' Association.

Lithuanian Airlines - Western fleet, passenger and cargo transportation. Direct flights from Vilnius to Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Kiev, London, Moscow, Paris, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Warsaw.

Lithuanian Railways - Company information, map of railway stations network and train timetables. English, Lithuanian and Russian language content available.

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Vilniaus Dobilas Ltd - Company is engaged in the carriage of cargoes through Europe.

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