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.
China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) has entrusted the Turku-headquartered company with delivering the complete basic and detail design of the two ferries, which will be chartered by the Attica Group.
As of 20 October 2024, the Scandinavia Baltic Express (SBX) loop, to be served by two container ships, will connect the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Fredericia, Gdynia, Rauma, and Gävle, with the Polish seaport enjoying two calls per week.
The Swedish metals, mining, and smelting company will put some 40-container-big freight volume onto the Rönnskär-Helsingborg shuttle for weekly overseas exports via the also Swedish seaport.
The Port of Gothenburg has inaugurated the operations of the brand-new, 144 thousand square metres terminal it has been working on for the past six years at the expense of €60 million.
