The Swedish Skärhamn-based company has commissioned the Chinese Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group to build two 13,000 dwt-big chemical/oil products carriers.

The Gothenburg-based Swedish Orient Line (SOL) has increased its shareholding in Scandinavian Logistics Partners (Scanlog) from 20% to over 50%.

The Chinese GSI shipyard has handed over Thjelvar to Rederi AB Gotland, the parent company of the Swedish shipping line Destination Gotland.

China Merchants' Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) will deliver the Superstar Class hybrid ro-paxes, each worth some $135m, in 2023.

DB Cargo Scandinavia, Kombiverkehr, Spedition Bode, and TT-Line have partnered to launch a multimodal service for transporting containers and trailers between Duisburg and Hallsberg/Stockholm.

The Swedish seaport has invested around €1.7m into replacing a smaller and wheeled crane with a rail-mounted, electric one that will be used to handle forest products.

APM Terminals, operator of the container terminal in the Port of Gothenburg, announced measures to make its facility fossil-free by 2020.

The Swedish port, in partnership with Hogia, has introduced a fully automatic, real-time gating solution for its existing gate-in.

The two shipping lines will charter space on-board their ro-ros serving traffic between Sweden and Belgium.

The Gothenburg-located Svenska Skeppshypotek, an organisation that provides financing to the shipping sector with a significant Swedish interest or influence, will loan approx. $70m for the construction of three dual-fuel gas-run battery-enhanced pure car & truck carriers (PCTCs).