The company has decided to withdraw from its plans to operate the route in question over the coming autumn and winter months as passengers started cancelling their bookings due to fear of imminent travel restrictions.
The shipping line has recently introduced the Scandinavian Shuttle Service, which connects the ports of Hamburg, Fredericia, Helsingborg, Halmstad, and Gothenburg on a weekly basis.
The Seattle-based company is readying to launch its e-commerce business in Sweden and will do so through a 15k m2-big warehouse located in the Eskilstuna Logistics Park and which will be managed by Kuehne + Nagel.
Following Norway's ban on cruise shipping with over 100 passengers on-board, TUI Cruises has decided to send its Mein Schiff 1 and Mein Schiff 2 to the Baltic.
As of 13 August the company's ro-paxes Stena Gothica and Urd will also make a Thursday evening call to the Port of Karlskrona on their way from Latvia to Germany.
DBO Bahnoperator, Metrans, PKP CARGO, and UTLC ERA are trialling a New Silk Road rail service between Hsinchu and Hamburg via Kaliningrad and then Poland.
The Latvian stevedore Jaunzeltiņi and the Icelandic manufacturer of timber pallets Tandrabretti ehf have partnered to ship sawn timber from Latvia and Belarus through the Port of Riga.
A total of €10m has been granted to the ports of Helsinki and Tallinn within the TWIN-PORT IV project, while €3.3m has been allocated for the Hansalink II initiative carried out together with Lübeck, plus €900k for fitting the Hernesaari harbour with onshore power supply (OPS).
