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.

The company has launched a weekly short sea service, BALT VI, between the ports of Klaipėda and Teesport via the Kiel Canal.

The shipping company is now making two departures on Saturdays instead of one.

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.

A 49-container-big train, dispatched from the Chinese Xi'an, arrived at the German Baltic Port of Rostock on 7 April.

The ferry line has taken into operation the ro-ro vessel Barbara Krahulik which after a visit in the Remontowa shipyard will start sailing as Marco Polo on the route in question as of end-January.

Baltic Container Terminal Riga and the China Merchants Group have signed a memorandum of cooperation.

RB Rail, the organisation overseeing the project, has selected IDOM to provide design and supervision services for the 71 km- Pärnu-Rapla and the 78 km-long Kaunas-Ramygala sections.

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 Klaipėda-based Sea Connect has introduced a new service that links the ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, and St. Petersburg on a weekly basis.