Baltic Transport Journal

Bothniaborg and Balticborg, previously sailing for Royal Wagenborg, will join the fleet of the Gothenburg-based shipping line. The deal also covers taking over a contract of affreightment with Smurfit Westrock, …

By purchasing the remaining 50% from Nylunds Properties, the designer and manufacturer of aluminium and composite boats has become the sole owner of the seaport located in southwestern Finland. The …

The Vuosaari-Tornio route is operated by ArcticRail, with the trains carrying CMA CGM Finland's containers with raw materials for the steel industry in northern Finland. The service runs once per …

The seaport, one of the busiest cruise destinations in Denmark, has contracted PowerCon to equip its Quay 9 with a 16-megawatt onshore power supply (OPS) station. The facility, the design …

Premium Quality Care, on behalf of Port of Gdańsk's stevedore, Port Gdański Eksploatacja, has erected a flat grain storage on the Szczecińskie Quay. The facility, constructed for Gdańsk Agro Terminal …

Sirius Shipping's first in a series of two 15,000-tonne deadweight, 147 by 22 metres, Ice Class 1A, 17,500 m³ of carrying capacity tankers has been delivered by China Merchants Industry …

Baltic Shipping Company’s newbuild, a sister ship of the also recently delivered Baltic Timber, has entered traffic, offering 185,400 ft³ of carrying capacity. The 89.7 by 12.5 metre vessel is …

The Port of Hartlepool's machinery park is now bigger with a new Konecranes Gottwald ESP.6 mobile harbour crane that's able to lift 125 tonnes and has a working radius of …

As of 2 September 2026, Kombiverkehr will be running twice per week between Duisburg Rail Hub and Malmö Kombiterminal CMP, with room for containers and trailers. There are already plans …

The Dutch specialist in cable logistics & recovery and related services for the offshore industry has signed a long-term agreement with Smålandshamnar for establishing a dedicated cable storage and offshore …

Sirius Shipping's first in a series of two 15,000-tonne deadweight, 147 by 22 metres, Ice Class 1A, 17,500 m³ of carrying capacity tankers has been delivered by China Merchants Industry …

The manufacturer's factory in Rostock has delivered two mobile harbour cranes of the LHM 550 type in container configuration, each offering a maximum outreach of 54 metres. "Equipped with Pactronic …

The rail arm of the Polish chapter of PSA International has officially begun the construction of its intermodal terminal in Zbąszynek in west-central Poland. The 9.4-hectare site, co-funded by the …

The £5.4-million electric portal slewing crane, manufactured by Liebherr in Rostock, joined two identical models introduced in 2023 to increase dry bulk and project cargo handling capacity at Teesport's Tees …

The first overnight departure on POLSCA Baltic Ferries' Gdańsk-Karlshamn crossing took place on 6 July 2026, when Copernicus (room for 160 passengers, 1,830 lane metres for cargo) left the Polish …

The Swedish national rail freight haulier, Green Cargo, has been entrusted by ScandFibre Logistics (SFL) with a multi-year contract to carry paper and cardboard products from all over Sweden for …

Stena Line and the Swedish Transport Administration have signed an agreement thanks to which the former's rail ferries will ply between Trelleborg and Rostock at least until the end of …

Engineered with custom supporting pads, the manufacturer's Rostock site has delivered a mobile harbour crane of the LHM 800 type to Rotterdam. Nicknamed Titan 1, Broekman Logistics' new Liebherr machinery …

LH2 Shipping's two forthcoming liquid hydrogen-powered cargo ships will feature fuel cells based on the Marine System 225 platform from the Gothenburg-based company, with delivery scheduled for completion in 2028. …

In a deal worth around €1.5 million, an under-expansion cruise terminal in Southern California will receive the PowerMove (a cable management system), PowerFeed (high-voltage power interface), and PowerCover (protective enclosure …

The Lithuanian energy company has been selected as the commercial and operational advisor for the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that's scheduled to be up and running in the …

The Turku-based ship design specialists will contribute to the EU-funded Horizon Europe project, coordinated by the University of Vaasa, tasked with accelerating the transition towards zero-carbon long-distance shipping through hydrogen-based …

As of September this year, the container ships Arnarfell and Helgafell will call at the Swedish seaport on a weekly basis, bringing fish and seafood while taking food products, construction …

The shipbuilders from the Polish CRIST will deliver the 100-metre-long hybrid vessel, equipped with a 3.0MWh battery system and backup biodiesel generators, by end-2028. The investment by the Estonian State …

The ferry, until the end of April 2026 serving the terminated Grenaa-Halmstad service of Stena Line, will now ply between Långnäs and Naantali in the colours of Eckerö Link. The …

Together with Finnlines, the Port of Långnäs has officially set in motion the approximately €3.0 million investment. The 16-metre-tall, 500 m² floor area facility is "[...] located right next to …

Sofia VG has left the Royal Bodewes shipbuilders and will soon be en route to Rauma after taking her very first cargo in Antwerp. The 6,735-deadweight, 105-metre-long Ecotrader is the …

The investment includes six rubber-tyred gantries (RTG) capable of handling five-by-five container blocks and two 6x6 RTGs, all of which are hybrid and manufactured by Konecranes. Among other features, the …

The Royal Caribbean Group has entrusted the Finnish shipbuilders with delivering two more Icon Class cruise ships. The newbuilds are expected to set sail in the summers of 2029 and …

The Swedish stevedore - active in the seaports of Kalix, Luleå, Piteå, and Skellefteå - will see the digitalisation of vessel calls, resource planning, invoicing, statistics, data analysis, ISPS compliance, …

Lakeway Link, a Wallenius Lines-Greencarrier JV, will stop sailing between the two seaports from 15 May this year at the latest, citing the 2026-to-2028 postponement of reconstructing the Södertälje lock …

The Swedish shipping company has entrusted Nantong Xiangyu Shipbuilding with the delivery of two high-heat tankers, slated for handover in 2028. Each 7,500-deadweight vessel will offer 6,600 m³ of capacity …

The cargo-handling fleet of the Port of Tauranga, which houses the country's largest container terminal, will grow with six hybrid straddle carriers, plus an electric one. The machinery is expected …

The Polish arm of MEDLOG Coldstore, a subsidiary of MSC, will set up a cold storage warehousing complex within the Port of Gdynia's Logistics Centre at the expense of PLN223.5 …

Thanks to the continued agreement, the ferry company will operate its Aurora Botnia between Vaasa and Umeå on the bio version of liquefied natural gas (bioLNG) through 2027. "BioLNG provided …

Avenir LNG's Avenir Ascension bunkered TT-Line's Peter Pan in the Port of Klaipėda. "For several years, Avenir has supported TT-Line's operations across ports in Sweden and Germany. Expanding our collaboration …

The newly built, 1A Ice Class, 89 by 16 metre general cargo vessel Bravoland, ordered by Klip Marine, has a cargo capacity of 5,200 tonnes/7,645 m³. "The sister vessel Rinaland …

In mid-September 2026, DFDS will put in place the chartered Ciudad de Valencia instead of Optima Seaways on the Swedish-Lithuanian crossing. The 2020-built ferry offers room for 950 passengers across …

The Finnish seaport will see the deployment of a new port management information system, featuring port call management, resource planning, time tracking with salary bases, contract management, invoicing, and business …

In a deal worth SEK684 million (€62.6m), the Swedish seaport has bought from Platzer land, office properties, and water areas, altogether enabling the development of 210,000 m² of new terminal …

The European chapter of the company from Houston has supplied a certified waste-based bio version of liquefied natural gas (bioLNG) to Avenir LNG's Avenir Ascension in the Port of Klaipėda. …

The 2002-built ferry will be handed over to her new owners at Hibernia Line on 1 May 2026, swapping the Kapellskär-Paldiski crossing for the newly created service between Cork and …

The packing experts will move into the Swedish seaport's facility that altogether offers 25,000 m² of space, divided between 15,000 m² for warehousing and 10,000 m² for office needs. "We …

The logistics property developer Nordsten Development has taken over the disused margarine factory in the Port of Helsingborg's South Harbour to turn the plot into a logistics facility. The 61,000 …

By the end of the year, HHLA TK Estonia will see the deployment of a pair of Konecranes' 296kWh rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes in its container terminal in the Port …

The SEK230 million (€21.3m) EU-supported investment saw the Port of Halmstad grow with a new 12-metre-deep and 200-m-long quay. Oceanhamnen additionally features 25,000 m² of yard space. "This is our …

The Antwerp-located Training Centre for Dockworkers (OCHA) will grow with two hybrid straddle carriers, which will join five other machines of this type from Kalmar. "OCHA's straddle carrier programme comprises …

Two brand-new 174,000-m³ gas carriers, Danuta Siedzikówna-Inka and Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, have received their names at Hanwha Ocean's shipyard in the South Korean Geoje. Each will be able to transport …

The Turku-based tech company will furnish the currently under-construction, to-be-completed-in-2027 facility with a passenger and cargo traffic management system. Apart from the software, the solution will include gates, measuring devices, …