The Dutch shipbuilders from Ferus Smit have launched Lidan and Spiken, the first in a series of six 4th generation of dry cargo freighters designed for trading through the Trollhätte Canal and in the Lake Vänern.
Operated by Hydri, the 1,500 kg of capacity/35 trucks per day station sits next to the Port of Gothenburg's Gate 6, the entrance to the Gothenburg RoRo Terminal and with 400 thousand vehicles/year, one of Sweden's most heavily trafficked roads.
The Swedish multinational power company and the Finnish seaport put their pens to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Windenergy Hamburg 2024 to investigate the latter's suitability in the development of offshore wind energy (OWE) projects of the former off Finland's coast.
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers has kicked off a one-per-month route that will see vehicles transported between Gothenburg, Singapore, Xinsha, Tianjin and Shanghai, with room for project cargo as well.
The joint venture of Swedish energy companies has partnered with the also Swedish, Ystad-based arm of the Finnish ESL Shipping to reduce the carbon footprint of its sea transports.
The Greek Paxos Island Maritime has taken over Mercandia VIII from Öresundslinjen, with the 1987-built (by North East Shipbuilders in the English Sunderland) ferry leaving Landskrona, where she was laid up, for Piraeus.
In February next year, MSC will put in motion its new Far East Asia-Northern Europe container rotation, with the ports of Aarhus and Gothenburg included on part of the Baltic Sea region.
On 17 September 2024, TUI Cruises' Mein Schiff 7 was the first to draw power from what Sweden's capital port calls the country's first high-voltage onshore power supply (OPS) facility set up specifically for international cruise ships.
Copenhagen Malmö Port's (CMP) box-handling facility in the Danish capital has fully switched to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO100) as well as green electricity to run its quay and yard machinery.
