Baltic Transport Journal

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, …

The 147.7-by-25.4-metre double-ended, brand-new hybrid ferry, an investment of €84 million by Scandlines, departed from Rødby on her maiden voyage to Puttgarden on the morning of 10 March 2026. Baltic …

The stevedore, part of the Rhenus Group, will buy a new crane, modernise its mobile cargo handling fleet, and erect two warehouses in the Polish port. Specifically, the funds will …

The 14-day crossing to/from the Norwegian seaport in Tromsø operated by Egil Ulvan Rederi's Oddrun With has swapped its port of call in Denmark from Hantsholm to Hirtshals. The 2022-built, …

The Finnish Nurminen Logistics and the Italian Lanzi Trasporti have partnered to kick off a weekly intermodal service that will link Frövi (near Örebro) and Parma. The connection will launch …

From October 2026, the output from SCA's Munksund Paper Mill, which earlier was dispatched by train to Umeå for shipping, will head to the Port of Piteå. Munksund produces around …

Shipbuilders from Ferus Smit have been entrusted with putting together two product tankers for Erik Thun Group's Thun Tankers. Each Ice Class 1A, 89-by-13.35-metre vessel will offer 5,000 m³ of …

KN Energies, Akmenės cementas, SCHWENK Latvija, Larvik Shipping, and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines have teamed up to form the CCS Baltic Consortium to develop Lithuania's first full carbon capture and storage …

Through its Industrial Leap programme, the Swedish Energy Agency has granted SEK31 million (€2.9m) to Nordion Energi for making the project in question investment-decision ready. To be established in the …

The Port of Gdynia saw the completion of upgrading nearly 800 metres of the quay wall in question, including dredging it to 15.5 metres. As such, ships with a 14.5-metre …

The Finnish Nurminen Logistics and the Italian Lanzi Trasporti have partnered to kick off a weekly intermodal service that will link Frövi (near Örebro) and Parma. The connection will launch …

The EU Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, has officially awarded the nearly €3.1 million support to the Finnish seaports for setting up onshore power supply (OPS) at …

The Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard will construct two freighters of the Stream Roro 1700 concept for the Ålandic company, with an option for an additional pair. The 125-by-24-metre ro-ros …

The logistics & stevedore from the Finnish Inkoo will further digitalise its various operations with the Port Management Information System (PMIS) from Grieg Connect. Through the PMIS, Inkoo Shipping will …

The shipping company from Lübeck has entrusted the Jinling Shipyard of China Merchants Industry Holdings to construct the gas-run, hybrid, 240-metre-long ro-pax. Classified by RINA, the ferry will also be …

Danish Business Authority has committed DKK17.5 million (some €2.34m) through the Just Transition Fund for supporting the project tasked with making Hirtshals a focal point for CO₂ handling. The funds …

The ceremony took place at the Austal Philippines shipyard in Balamban, marking the first construction step towards delivering the 130-metre-long high-speed ferry to her Swedish owners at Gotland Company in …

Acwa, a Saudi energy company, EnBW, a German energy supplier, VNG, a gas importer and infrastructure operator from Leipzig, and the Port of Rostock have put their pens to a …

The Helsinki-based supplier of raw materials and chemicals will add a new storage facility in Loviisa, slated for opening this year, and new tank capacity in Kokkola (2027). In the …

Replacing and consolidating existing solutions, the Port Management Information System (PMIS) will serve as the Finnish seaport's primary platform for managing daily planning, operations, and financial processes. The suite includes …

POLSCA, which brings the Polish Polferries and Unity Line under one banner, is working to establish a new connection between the ports of Gdańsk and Karlshamn later this year. Two …

The Stena Nautica ferry of Stena Line will ply on the crossing between Denmark and Sweden until 30 April 2026. "The reason for this decision is that we have faced …

Three LHM 550 mobile harbour cranes will be shipped from the manufacturer's Rostock site to the ports of Miami and Houston. The high-rise configuration, hydrostatic drive machines, equipped with custom …

ShoreLink will deliver the 6.5MVA chargers to be installed in the ports of Helsinki and Tallinn between which the Ålandic ferry line plies with soon-to-house-batteries Finlandia. "To ensure smooth operations, …

The Jiangsu Zhenjiang shipyard has been entrusted with constructing the 120-by-21.6-metre, 6,800-deadweight (dwt), 1A Ice Class, DP2 vessel, scheduled for delivery by the beginning of 2028. Designed in co-op with …

Progressive Energy and Pipe58 have signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint advancement of Highway58, a cross-border carbon capture, storage and utilisation network in the Baltic Sea region. In …

The Port of Gävle and Inter Terminals (IT) have signed a new 25-year agreement, covering the latter's operations in the Swedish seaport. IT, a provider of storage and logistics solutions …

The Swedish seaport has commissioned Takorama Elteknik with the installation of a 4.0MWh power bank near its ferry berth 8. Completion of the project is expected by 1 December 2026 …

The Latvian company has won a tender put out by Marsa Maroc to transport a double jib level luffing crane. The machinery, of German production, will be shipped fully assembled …