Subject to approval by competition authorities, the Danish freight forwarder specialising in serving trade between Scandinavia and Eastern Europe will become part of DFDS.
The two countries want to add more volume to the already existing container services (from Klaipėda to Odessa and Kiev), set up one for the transportation of trailers (Klaipėda-Odessa), and rail-connect Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius and Riga together.
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.
Responding to a request submitted by the Flemish-Dutch port authority of North Sea Port, the European Commission will prolong the Corridor in question to also include the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal Zone.
The Danes will deepen the canal down to 15 metres in order to increase the permissible vessel draught to 13.8 m from the northern part of the port up to the Malku Bay.
LG Cargo, a subsidiary of Lithuanian Railways, PKP CARGO, and CargoBeamer are trialling the carriage of trailers by rail between Kaldenkirchen and Šeštokai via Poland.
