The Neapolitan shipping company has taken over the assets of the Spanish Armas Trasmediterránea Group, including ferry services to and from the Balearic Islands.

The Brussels-headquartered Lineas has introduced a new route that connects the North Sea Port's Ghent with the Milano Segrate inland terminal in northern Italy, operated by Terminali Italia.

The Chinese Jinling shipyard has handed over the ro-ro to the Neapolitan company, the fifth in a series of 12 hybrid vessels of the Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G) class.

The service connects Pordenone in northeast Italy with the Rotterdam C.RO ferry terminal by three weekly round trips.

The €19.6m-big deal, a bareboat hire/purchase arrangement, will see the ro-pax handed over in May 2021.

The fleet of the company's Malta Motorways of the Sea has been reinforced with the purchase of two ro-ros: Eurocargo Catania and Eurocargo Sicilia, each offering 3,300 lane metres of cargo capacity.

The train set - carrying electronics, auto parts, and epidemic-prevention supplies - will cross Duisburg on its way and arrive at the final destination after 21-22 days.

The new route goes via the Manzhouli-Zabaykalsk and Brest-Małaszewicze border crossings, with trains running to Europe once per week.

The multinational consultancy has won the safety, reliability, availability and maintainability (RAMS) contract, awarded by RB Rail AS, a consortium that's in charge of setting up the standard-gauge freight & passenger 1,000 km-long rail line from Estonia to Poland.

The new facility will sit next to Vlaeynatie's tri-modal 3MCT container terminal in the Autrichehaven in Terneuzen.