The 60+ member-big initiative, led by the City of Helsinki, has been set up to assist organizations in improving their eco-performance and go beyond the current legislative requirements.
The initiative has been launched by the City of Gothenburg and the trade and industry development company Business Region Göteborg, with the Gothenburg Port Authority (GPA) as the first to introduce a procurement system that includes the new stipulations.
Following Stena Line's move from Nynäshamn to Norvik as part of its service to and from Ventspils, the company's Stena Flavia has inaugurated the port's ro-ro operations.
The Swedish Maritime Administration and the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency have commissioned the Helsinki-headquartered engineering company with designing a new model of more effective, cheaper, and greener icebreakers.
As of 2 November, the Copenhagen-Frederikshavn-Oslo route will be served by a single ro-pax (Pearl Seaways), instead of two (Crown Seaways), with departures every second day as opposed to daily.
The dry bulk operator has taken over a 26k m2-big, 12.5 m-tall, and fitted with six overhead cranes property that earlier served as a gas pipeline coating facility.
