Subject to approval by competition authorities, the Danish freight forwarder specialising in serving trade between Scandinavia and Eastern Europe will become part of DFDS.
Owners of the Baltic Fuel Company (BFC) have secured a RUB1.05b (€12.1m) loan to construct a terminal for storing and handling bitumen, liquid asphalt, and producing modified bitumen with plasticizers.
The terminal, located on the island of Kronstadt near St. Petersburg, has handled its first batch of cars (1,097) of the Chinese Chery and Geely brands, brought onboard KESS Line's Seine Highway from Zeebrugge.
The container carrier OOCL and its subsidiary OOCL Logistics have introduced a service that takes containers from Xi'an to several US East Coast ports via the Baltic and North seas.
FESCO Transportation Group, RZD Logistics, and Nurminen Logistics have set up Finland Bridge, a sea-rail service that connects several Chinese ports with the Finnish Vuosaari.
The company has started offering an intermodal solution that routes cargo from a number of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ports to the Russian ones in Vladivostok and Vostochniy and then dispatches it by rail to St. Petersburg.
By combining rail and sea transport, DB Cargo Eurasia is testing an alternative route from China to Finland to the current setup that sees trains passing the Buslovskaya-Vainikkala border between Russia and Finland.
