Private companies accomplished about 62 per cent all construction - assembling work. In 1993 on housing construction per 1000 population was 2,1 and it make up 70 per cent compared with the previous period. At the same time private house building became more active. The volume of transportation by all kinds of vehicles in 1993 decreased for the decline in other spheres of economy. In the main, railway transport was engaged in transit and international conveyance of load ships carried freight to foreign ports.
Transportation is perspective branch of economy due to convientient location of Lithuania.
Germany is the main Lithuanian partner in foreign trade among Western countries. In the state sector were employed 847.2 thousand people constituing 47 per cent, in the private sector - 962.2 thousand or 53 per cent. Women comprised more than a half of the all unemployed. Consumption Under slump production, growing inflation and price rising, the living standard of Lithuanian inhabitants significantly went down. First of all it affected the workers of culture, education and health service.