The state-owned Operail has received clearance from the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency to provide rail cargo services across the country's network.
The company has purchased for €8.5m the 1987-built Sailor, most recently owned by Navirail and chartered to DFDS for serving the Kapellskär-Paldiski route.
FRS is going to establish a ferry service between the German island of Rügen and southern Sweden, connecting the ports of Mukran (Sassnitz) and Ystad as of mid-September.
EEW Special Pipe Constructions and Vattenfall have become the first parties to use the 1,600t of lifting capacity crane, otherwise employed by Liebherr for its internal logistics in the Port of Rostock.
The Dutch Nieuwleusen-based Westerman Multimodal Logistics will set up a new transshipment facility, for handling combined container & truck sea-road-rail freight, in the Port of Malmö.
After ten weeks of testing, the connection between the ports of Mukran (Sassnitz) and Baltiysk, a dedicated sea link for carrying New Silk Road containers, has been upgraded to two weekly sailings.
