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.

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.

On 9 June, the ferry company will kick off a new weekly ro-pax service between the Swedish and Lithuanian harbours.

The shipping company has altered its Baltic network and will now directly call to Gdynia and Klaipeda with two worldwide deep sea services.

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.

The Danish shipping and logistics company has acquired 100% of the share capital of the Rotterdam-based Alphatrans Group.