Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg and Port Express Transport Company have put in place a bi-weekly train service, running every Tuesday and Thursday.
The Aberdeen-based company has won a £270m-big contract for the design and delivery of three hybrid service operation vessels (SOVs) which will work around the world's biggest (3.6 GW) offshore wind farm.
The Lübeck Port Authority (LPA), the terminal operator Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft mbH (LHG), and the Port of Helsinki have received a €3.4m-big grant from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for greening their operations.
The port authority and PSA Antwerp, Europa's operator, will overhaul the 1990-commissioned facility, so that container ships with a max draught of 16 m (at inlet) can call to it versus the current 13.5 m.
The new machinery, offering 154t of lifting capacity and a maximum outreach of 54 m, will be shipped fully-assembled from Liebherr's plant in the Port of Rostock in March.
A fully-loaded train left Xi'an on 6 March for the Russian Baltic Port of Kaliningrad, where the goods will be loaded onto a vessel heading for the Danish Port of Fredericia.
The Norwegian Höegh Autoliners' new link connects the Swedish seaport to Australia and New Zealand via South Africa, Mozambique, Mauritius, and Madagascar.
