Year 2018 is drawing to its conclusion. The past months, alike life itself, were full of ups and downs. It was a real Dickens of a job putting all the issues of the Baltic Transport Journal and the Harbours Review together - dozens of articles and hundreds of news items and Market SMSes, not to mention all the add-ons, such as our maps or the Baltic Yearbook.
The Danish shipping company will on 24 September deploy a larger container carrier on a loop that connects England's east shore with Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, and Finland.
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.
The company has introduced a new connection that links a number of ports in the Baltic with Norway, with a further option to go the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
The Danish shipping company has contracted for DKK2.5b (€340m) the Chinese Guangzhou Shipyard to construct two ferries to be deployed across the Baltic.
RB Rail, a company responsible for developing the Baltics-wide standard gauge railway, has chosen DB Engineering & Consulting to iron out a long-term business plan and strategy for the project.