The seaports of Ventspils and Chornomorsk have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at planning and developing future transport and logistics flows.

The project - launched by the Ports of Stockholm, the Baltic Ports Organization, and Interlegal - will receive €17.3 thousand in grant within the Ukraine Cooperation Programme to help Ukrainian ports move closer to EU standards and the block's transport network.

The intermodal rail arm of HHLA, with the help of Ukrainian Railways, has organised the first train run between Dąbrowa Górnicza and Mostyska.

Ukrainian Railways (UZ) are testing the link between Sknyliv in Ukraine and Sławków in Poland via the crossing in Izov-Hrubieszów.

The first train set, comprising 43 forty-foot containers loaded with timber, has been dispatched from Kyiv and will arrive in Xi'an after an 18-day-long journey.

Subject to approval by competition authorities, the Danish freight forwarder specialising in serving trade between Scandinavia and Eastern Europe will become part of DFDS.

The Austrian Rail Cargo Group has put in place a new route that connects the Chinese Ganzhou with Budapest in a journey that takes 15-18 days.

The two countries want to add more volume to the already existing container services (from Klaipėda to Odessa and Kiev), set up one for the transportation of trailers (Klaipėda-Odessa), and rail-connect Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius and Riga together.

The shipping major has connected, on a weekly basis, the Port of Odessa with Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.

UTLC ERA, Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany), and Liski have partnered to run a 50 FEU-big container train from Chongqing to Sławków that avoids gauge change in Europe.