In the first half of 2026, the value of manufacturing products sold in Liep\u0101ja reached EUR 322.7 million, an increase of 15.6% compared with the same period last year. Liep\u0101ja\u2019s manufacturing sector remains strongly export-oriented, with exports accounting for 77% of total sales.<\/p>\n
The value of products sold for export reached EUR 248.6 million, an increase of EUR 36.9 million, or 17.4%, year on year. Meanwhile, products worth EUR 74.1 million were sold on the domestic market, representing an increase of 9.8% compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n
Based on the available manufacturing indicators for Latvia\u2019s state cities outside Riga, Liep\u0101ja retains its leading position in terms of both manufacturing output and sales. Products manufactured in Liep\u0101ja account for 5.5% of Latvia\u2019s total manufacturing output.<\/p>\n
Growth in both output and sales in Liep\u0101ja was also faster than the national average. Among the nine state cities for which data are available, Liep\u0101ja recorded the second-fastest growth in manufacturing output and sales.<\/p>\n
In 2026, Liep\u0101ja also achieved its highest first-half manufacturing output in the past seven years. Compared with the first half of 2020, output measured in monetary terms has increased by 85.8%. However, the impact of inflation must also be taken into account when assessing long-term growth.<\/p>\n
Overall, the data for the first half of 2026 confirm the stable growth of Liep\u0101ja\u2019s manufacturing sector. Manufacturing output, sales, exports and domestic sales all increased, while Liep\u0101ja maintained its leading position among Latvia\u2019s state cities outside Riga in terms of manufacturing volume.<\/p>\n
Public Relations and Marketing Department In the first half of 2026, manufacturing companies in Liep\u0101ja produced goods worth EUR 310.2 million – an increase of 21.1%, or EUR 54.1 million, compared with the same period last year, according to the latest data compiled by the Liep\u0101ja Central Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investinliepaja.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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