Believe it or not, but gliders made it to the inner part of the Port of Gdynia before ships did. What’s more, they even did it ahead of the dredgers which dug the harbour channel! It all happened in 1925in then the village of Oksywie (now Gdynia’s city district), which was chosen as the place for the 2nd All-Polish Glider Challenge.

This pleasure boat (photo taken in the 1960s on the river Vltava) has been converted from the British made Saunders-Roe A.19 Cloud, which was the only flying boat in the history of Czechoslovak aviation.

Following our interview with one of the top execs of the European branch of the Cruise Lines International Association for the Harbours Review, our other publication, our appetite for embarking on a cruise journey across the Baltic Sea region has grown even more.

Our readers know that we are very keen on "intermodal" vehicles, especially when they use air to travel and water to rest.

Although the jubilee of the ferry link between Świnoujście and Ystad is far behind us, this column has its own rules and can commemorate it once again, especially if our research brings something extra.

This seems to be an update of the Baltic Transport Journal's 2/2017 Collector's Corner.

We often recollect old ideas that should be refreshed because of their educational or marketing values.

At the beginning of the 20th century, workers started to set up a sanatorium in the Polish locality of Rudka.

Ship lovers from Denmark, Russia and especially Poland know the history of the passenger vessels Kursk, Tsar and Tsaritsa, built during 1910-1915 for the Russian American Line, a Russian-Danish company.

Readers in the most remote corners of many countries were used to receiving their capital's newspaper at least one day after its being issued.