Year 2018 is drawing to its conclusion. The past months, alike life itself, were full of ups and downs. It was a real Dickens of a job putting all the issues of the Baltic Transport Journal and the Harbours Review together - dozens of articles and hundreds of news items and Market SMSes, not to mention all the add-ons, such as our maps or the Baltic Yearbook.
The Chinese Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard has handed over to the Finish shipping line Containerships the first in a series of four 1,400 TEU-big carriers powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The company will send an application for a new environmental permit to the country's Land and Environmental Court, which, if granted, will make it possible to add a Green Feed Unit to the plant.
Finferries, a state-owned ferry operator, and Rolls-Royce have successfully carried out what is said to be the first fully autonomous ferry crossing in the world.
The Swedish shipping line will put in place a new route as of early January, linking the Finnish Pietarsaari with the ports in Lübeck, Zeebrugge, and Tilbury.
The brand-new ship bunker filling facility of the Swedish gas pipeline infrastructure manager and gas seller has been used for the first time on a market basis, following an earlier test made in October.
The hull of the 160 m-long ferry, welded in Gdynia by Crist, has landed in the Norwegian Ulstein shipyard, where it will be outfitted over the coming months in order to hand it over to Color Line next summer.
The Meyer Turku shipyard has started to work on the Carnival XL1 project, a GT 180k-big cruise ship that, once delivered, will be the biggest in the fleet of the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line.
