Editing Klaipėda (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Baltas Wheat Beer (Flickr).jpg|thumb|right|Klaipėda is famous for [[Švyturys]] brewery, established in 1784]]

Klaipėda generates approximately 12 percent of Lithuania's GDP and about 80 percent of western Lithuania's GDP.<ref name="KlaipedaEconomy">{{cite web |title=Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės administracija – Ekonominė situacija |url=https://www.klaipeda.lt/lit/Ekonomine-situacija/1277 |website=Klaipeda.lt |access-date=11 November 2017 |language=lt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111204758/https://www.klaipeda.lt/lit/Ekonomine-situacija/1277 |archive-date=11 November 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Much of Klaipėda's economy is impacted by trade in the [[Port of Klaipėda]]. In the eastern part of the city, there is the [[Klaipėda Free Economic Zone]], which offers 0 percent tax incentives for first 6 years.

Klaipėda also the location of the first [[Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant|Geothermal Demonstration Plant]] in the [[Baltic States]], which supplies with [[geothermal heating]] and [[Klaipėda Combined Heat and Power Plant]]. In 2014, [[Klaipėda LNG FSRU]] with [[FSRU Independence]] ship was opened and guaranteed the alternative way of supplying the country with gas.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sėlenienė |first=Laura |title=SGD terminalas oficialiai atidarytas: pradėjo suktis skaitiklis už "Independence" nuomą |url=https://www.15min.lt/verslas/naujiena/energetika/sgd-terminalas-oficialiai-atidarytas-pradejo-suktis-skaitiklis-uz-independence-nuoma-664-470621 |website=15min.lt |access-date=3 December 2014 |archive-date=6 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706022411/http://www.15min.lt/verslas/naujiena/energetika/sgd-terminalas-oficialiai-atidarytas-pradejo-suktis-skaitiklis-uz-independence-nuoma-664-470621 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Most of the city's GDP is generated in the service sector. Inhabitants of Klaipėda have a higher income than the average of Lithuania. Companies in Klaipėda include [[BLRT Western Shipyard]], [[DFDS Lisco]], [[Švyturys]], [[Klaipėdos jūrų krovinių kompanija]], [[Grigeo AB|Grigeo Klaipėda]] and [[Balticum TV]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

According to the [[Department of Statistics (Lithuania)|Lithuanian Department of Statistics]], the GDP in the second quarter of 2017 as compared with the first quarter of 2017, has increased by 7.7 percent, while comparing with the second quarter of 2016 it has increased by 4.0 percent. The rise is also planned in the further years.<ref name="KlaipedaEconomy" />