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Danfoss Editron and Volvo Penta to power the Armada fleet

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DFDS enhances its Karlshamn-Klaipėda service

Maersk to set up a pharmaceutical eco-warehouse in central Poland

New SE-NO container rail service

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Market SMS

Port of Vysotsk: 12.48 mln tn handled in I-IX 2016 (-5.2% yoy)
Port of Vysotsk: 12.48 mln tn handled in I-IX 2016 (-5.2% yoy)
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BTJ Highlights & current issue

BTJ 3-4/20 We're pleased to announce that the 3-4/20 issue is ready and - as always - packed with great reads.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Report: Containers (and passengers) lift, others drift. The Baltic ro-ro & ferry, container, break-bulk, and passenger markets in 2019 With 337.45 million tonnes, the seaports of the Baltic Sea region handled slightly less general cargo last year than in 2018, a drop of 1.2% year-on-year, and a contraction of 0.61 percentage points in its overall share of the region's total.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Economy: How to win with COVID-19. The post-corona government and business world The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently released a series of articles on how governments and businesses, particularly their leaders, can assist populations in coping with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), and how to best prepare for the new reality after the crisis is over.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Economy: Bright or blight? The future of freight-tech start-ups The year 2019, when the valuations of various freight transport-related start-ups were sky high, and every little innovation was hailed as a revolutionary change, felt so "century ago" by March 2020, all because of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
BTJ 3-4/20 - Economy: Time and again. Capturing the economic importance of ports across-the-board According to a 2016 study by the European Sea Ports Organisation, most ports in Europe are publicly owned (some 87% by a municipality or city).
BTJ 3-4/20 - Maritime: Targeted, sustainable, harmonious development. The Port of Klaipėda to further expand thanks to NIB funds The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Klaipėda State Seaport Authority have signed a 17-year-long €68m-big credit facility agreement aimed at renewing the port's infrastructure.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Maritime: Safety is a mindset. Interview with Erik Green, Managing Director and Partner, Green-Jakobsen Knowing that safety is vitally important and behaving accordingly are, unfortunately, two very different things.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Maritime: Voyages of discovery. Kongsberg Maritime uses technology to benefit the expedition cruise sector: experience-rich, operation-safe, and climate-smart We are reminded on a daily basis that technology is helping to make the virtual world ever smaller.
BTJ 3-4/20 - Maritime: Package deal. Interview with Douglas Heilborn, CEO, the Port of Oxelösund Time-wise, developing a port has never been an easy task.
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Transport miscellany

Best social distancing ever Aeroplanes aren't well-suited to facilitate maintaining a proper distance in times of a pandemic. Well, at least the majority of them!
Boardwalk railways In the previous instalment of this column, we mentioned a narrow-gauge railway on one of the East Frisian Islands built in the 19th century to join a ferry harbour on the isle's south coast with a settlement located by the open sea.
Victualled trailers Containers, containers, nothing but containers, enough already!
A container hospital in Kazakhstan While Canadians are turning containers into leisure devices, KTZ Express has transported by rail a set of 226 box-based mobile homes for a prefabricated 280-bed-big infectious diseases hospital set up near Almaty.
The Sauna Box Another company from Canada, Castor, has fitted a sauna into a standard shipping container.
Your very own sea/spa - in a container Coming back to our habit of showcasing alternative uses of shipping containers, this time we're travelling to Canada where the Modpools company is making swimming pools and hot tubs of them (2.4-by six or 12 metres).
Rostock celebrates - twice! The Hanseatic City of Rostock has at least two reasons to party this year - though because of the coronavirus pandemic, official celebrations will most likely be postponed or scrapped altogether, which is a real shame as all-day performances were planned.
Gone are the horses, gone are the aeroplanes (well, sort of) The first-ever meeting between the world's first all-metal airliner (Junkers F13) and horse railcars just couldn't happen in a different spot than the East Frisian Islands (in the past and today a popular place to unwind), equipped in the 19th century with narrow-gauge railways and air-linked with Berlin in the 1920s through the so-called Bädeluftverkehr (bathing air transport).
The luckiest After 18 years, the luckiest ship used for trade between Greenland and Denmark, Nordlyset ("the northern light"), made its way back onto a stamp.
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