The first ever mention of a regular ferry service between the two ports was in November 1964, when Sten A. Olsson said that a link served by a newbuild would be established within two years.

This column has a few soft spots for some things, one of them being flying boats, already depicted here several times before. Jan Nagórski must have liked them as well.

Perhaps you have not heard much about the turnover results of the Kędzierzyn-Koźle port, but things can change pretty soon.

Supplementing our analysis - illumination! - of the container market, we would like to tear off the hard exterior, exposing the spiritual side of the industry.

Carta Marina, printed in 1539 in Venice, was published by the last catholic Bishop of Uppsala, Olaus Magnus (who was expatriated from his country, upheaved by the protestant revolution, so don't be surprised by the "Italian, first published label").

The depicted steam locomotive Sk1 No. 124 isn’t maybe the country’s oldest, but – in our opinion – it’s the most charming one in the collection of the Finnish Railway Museum.

Although the Danish Port of Esbjerg, celebrating its 150th birthday this year, is located on then North Sea, it has always been included on our maps, as it de facto serves the Baltic market, too.

On 6 March, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the HQ of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to take part in celebrating IMO’s 70th birthday. The Convention on the International Maritime Organization was adopted on 6 March 1948 at the United Nations Maritime Conference held in Geneva.

This year we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between Japan and the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. This was the first treaty the Government of Meiji Japan, which overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate, signed with a foreign country.

The symbolic statue Quo Vadis, sculpted by the Czech artist David Černý, was erected in 2001 on the premises of the German Embassy in Prague to commemorate the expats.