The 70mt of annual handling capacity Primorsk Multipurpose Transshipment Complex (PMTC), an investment valued at RUB90.6b (€1.21b), is planned to be up and running by 2022.
On 8 February, the MCC was established to work on the Maritime Connectivity Platform (MCP), an open source digital maritime domain which wants to bring common Internet standards to maritime navigation and transport systems.
N.C. Nielsen has supplied the Danish Esbjerg-headquartered Blue Water Shipping (BWS) with a reachstacker that's said to have the biggest lifting capacity in the world.
The 109 m-long catamaran ferry, to sail in the livery of Molslinjen in the Kattegat, has left Austal's Australian shipyard and is expected to arrive in the Baltic at the turn of February and March.
The GT 111.5k-big and 315 m-long cruise ship (some 20 m longer than the previous Mein Schiff 2) has been handed over, ahead of schedule, to her owners from TUI Cruises.
The 1,400 TEU-big vessel belonging to the Finnish short sea operator Containerships, part of CMA CGM, received its first batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Port of Rotterdam on 24 January.
The ferry company and the university, both based in Tallinn, have started a two year-long €100k scientific collaboration, the aim of which is to develop technologies for making car deck operations more efficient.
