The Finnish short sea shipping company, part of the CMA CGM group that has recently been merged with MacAndrews, has extended its network with a service that links the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic via the North Sea.
The HHLA's rail intermodal subsidiary has ordered 10 Vectron multisystem locomotives from Siemens, due for delivery between end-2019 and the spring of 2020.
Destination Gotland's €160m-worth newbuild, a 200 m-long and 32 m-wide ro-pax running on liquefied natural gas (LNG), went out on her first round trip between Visby and Nynäshamn on 28 March.
Back in November 2018, the Estonian ferry line and the Finnish Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) signed a letter of intent, which now was turned into a shipbuilding contract, the biggest in the shipyard's history.
"Over last few years we have been facing a constant deterioration on the Russian market. Unfortunately the political and economical situation is still dramatically affecting the commercial trade environment," the company said in a press release.
On 19 March, a CMA CGM container carrier will be bunkered in the Port of Rotterdam with second generation biofuel derived from forest residues and waste cooking oil.
RB Rail, the organisation overseeing the project, has selected IDOM to provide design and supervision services for the 71 km- Pärnu-Rapla and the 78 km-long Kaunas-Ramygala sections.
Leading a 15-strong delegation to Hamburg and Lübeck, Kaspars Ozoliņš, Under-Secretary of State in the Latvian Ministry of Transport, and Ingo Egloff, Joint CEO of the Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM), signed a co-op agreement.
The GT 111.5k-big and 315 m-long cruise ship (some 20 m longer than the previous Mein Schiff 2) has been handed over, ahead of schedule, to her owners from TUI Cruises.
