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).

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.

The Estonian ferry line's Silja Serenade, usually serving the Helsinki-Stockholm link, will be plying between the two capitals from 26 June till 15 August, with departures every other day.

Hupac has launched a new weekly service that links METRANS' terminal in Warsaw with WienCont Container Terminal in the Austrian capital.

Because of lower demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Danish shipping line has almost halved the number of sailing on the Hanko-Paldiski route.

RZD Logistics, Sinotrans, and Far East Land Bridge (FELB) have launched a new train container service that runs between the Chinese Shenyang and the Austrian Enns via the border crossing in Zabaykalsk.

The shipping company, part of CMA CGM, has kicked off a weekly service that connects Tallinn's Muuga with the English Teesport and Dutch Rotterdam.

As a result of the Estonia parliament's passing of the Supplementary Budget Act, vessels entering the country's ports and roadsteads will be exempted from the payment of fairway dues - till 31 March 2021.

Tallink Latvija AS, part of Tallink Grupp, has notified the Latvian Employment Agency and the group's Latvian crew members and shore personnel that it is commencing a collective redundancy process involving around 550 Latvian employees.