Another company from Canada, Castor, has fitted a sauna into a standard shipping container.

Coming back to our habit of showcasing alternative uses of shipping containers, this time we're travelling to Canada where the Modpools company is making swimming pools and hot tubs of them (2.4-by six or 12 metres).

The Hanseatic City of Rostock has at least two reasons to party this year - though because of the coronavirus pandemic, official celebrations will most likely be postponed or scrapped altogether, which is a real shame as all-day performances were planned.

The first-ever meeting between the world's first all-metal airliner (Junkers F13) and horse railcars just couldn't happen in a different spot than the East Frisian Islands (in the past and today a popular place to unwind), equipped in the 19th century with narrow-gauge railways and air-linked with Berlin in the 1920s through the so-called Bädeluftverkehr (bathing air transport).

After 18 years, the luckiest ship used for trade between Greenland and Denmark, Nordlyset ("the northern light"), made its way back onto a stamp.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of discovering Antarctica - by the Estonian-born Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev - Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia, went southbound, yet not on a tourist-like, handshake, nice views jaunt but a full-blown state business trip.

The London-headquartered freight forwarder has made it to our pages several times, specifically into the Made in China news section as the company has organised its own multimodal services linking the UK with China.

Between 1929 and 1935, North German Lloyd's ships Bremen and Europa carried Luft-Hansa's floatplanes.

The year 2020 brings another momentous anniversary - that of the creation of Hapag-Lloyd, one of today's container shipping heavyweights.

The depicted metalwork from 1905 adorns the former HQ of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cracow, some 500 km away from the Polish shores of the Baltic Sea.