Following the installation of protection screens, coal dust suppression equipment, and air & water quality monitoring systems, the Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT) has started taking care of coal shipments.

Kombiverkehr will as of 11 January reinstall a regular rail connection between the port's Norwegenkai and Hamburg's Billwerder, while at the same Color Line will open a completely new ro-ro route to Oslo.

As of the beginning of 2019, the Swedish shipping line no longer offers a ro-ro service between the ports in question.

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 ferry line has entrusted the Chinese Jinling Shipyard with the delivery of a brand-new ro-pax, scheduled for delivery in 2022.

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.

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 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.

Construction works will soon kick off at the site of the second terminal building for cruise passengers.

The two Turku-based companies will provide the basic and detail design as well as shipyard site services during the construction of the vessel.