On 6 September, the 316 m-long MSC Meraviglia was the first cruise ship in history to berth at the Port of Kapellskär, one of the three harbours within the Ports of Stockholm port authority.
The Danish shipping company DFDS has introduced a third vessel on the route in question, thus increasing the number of weekly sailing by one to a total of eight.
FESCO and Hyundai Glovis have set up a regular sea-rail container service on which spare car parts and other components are transported from South Korea to Hyundai's factory in St. Petersburg.
The Swedish port is investing in what will most probably be the world's first automated high bay storage for paper rolls, to be erected just next to the existing container terminal.
The vessel, branded as the world's most eco-friendly bulker, has been delivered by the Chinese Jinling Shipyard and will arrive in the Baltic in mid-September, carrying a shipment from Japan.
Wärtsilä will invest approx. €200m in setting up a completely new centre of research, product development and production in Vaskiluoto in the Finnish Vaasa, due to come online in 2020.
The Port of Turku and the City of Turku have signed a letter of intent with the two shipping lines to modernise the Kanavaniemi area with a new ferry terminal.
