The combined service, launched in August 2019 in partnership with Modul and Global Ports, saw its first eastbound train dispatched from St. Petersburg on 28 March.
The multimodal route connects the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe with Hamburg and Duisburg via the Chinese Port of Taiciang and then along the New Silk Road through Xi'an, Alashankou, Nur-Sultan, and Brest/Małaszewicze.
The company will supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks, each with a capacity of 685 m3, 500 m3/hour bunkering stations, and systems for automation, emergency shutdown, and gas detection.
The Finnish company will supply all the main equipment for the also Finnish shipping company whose ro-los are being constructed at the Chinese WuHu Shipyard.
The four short sea 1A ice class 5,800 dwt-big lo-lo gas-run ships, currently under construction at the Chinese WuHu Shipyard, will feature a host of technologies developed by the Finnish company.
The Swedish Skärhamn-based company has commissioned the Chinese Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group to build two 13,000 dwt-big chemical/oil products carriers.
