Nils Holgersson, the first in a series of two new ferries for the German Baltic shipping line, has left the Chinese Jiangsu Jinling Shipyard heading for Travemünde.
The AE66 link sees cargoes sea-routed from China, Japan and Korea to the Russian Vostochny Port, where the load is transhipped onto Trans-Siberian trains heading for Kaliningrad.
