After having to lay up several ships, Godby Shipping announced new charters and deployments: MISIDA to P&O Ferries, for Dublin-Liverpool, July-September MIDAS to Wagenborg, for a new liner service Riga-Oxelösund. The main cargo is prefabricated construction elements for the Swedish building sector.
https://ferryshippingnews.com/new-charters-and-new-routes-for-godby-ships/
Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has arrived at the Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind field in the Baltic Sea and will soon commence installation works for the ..
Wärtsilä installs Route Exchange on 50 vessels to increase tanker safety, that frequently sail in the Baltic Sea,...
http://mfame.guru/wartsila-wins-contract-to-equip-additional-50-ships-stm-enabled/
According to an article published in Argus Media, authored by Catherine Caulfield and Erik Hoffmann, base oil loadings...
http://mfame.guru/container-shortage-hits-base-oil-shipments-in-europe/
According to a recent statement by the Freeport of Riga, 62.4 million marine shipments were handled by Latvian ports in 2019; the total volume of cargo decreased by 5.7% compared to 2018. Taking into consideration that the traditional regional cargo flows tend to change, and that the volume of handled transit consignments has decreased in Latvia, this development can still to be considered fairly good. Namely, the largest ports of Latvia handled 41% of the total cargo volume in the Baltic...
https://safety4sea.com/largest-ports-of-latvia-to-improve-their-competitiveness/
Hutchison Ports will operate two brand new super-post-Panamax cranes at the container terminal at the Stockholm Norvik Port. The container cranes started their journey from Shanghai on 10th January and will arrive for installation at the new port at the end of March.
Ports of Stockholm’s new freight port – the Stockholm Norvik Port – will be capable of handling the largest vessels operating in the Baltic Sea. The container cranes are just over 80 metres high in their lowest position, they can...
https://safety4sea.com/stockholm-norvik-port-to-accommodate-two-new-super-post-panamax-cranes/
Accident type: Collision between two vessels
Vessel(s) involved: Small general cargo vessel (referred to as “vessel A”), Vessel B
Location: Baltic Sea
The Incident
The Vessel...
https://safety4sea.com/improper-lookout-leads-to-two-vessels-collision/
On behalf of German ship operator Reederei Nord, a team from ETH Zurich investigated shipping activities in the North and Baltic Seas as well as the infrastructure, costs of new fuels and storage options, in a bid to map out “routes” towards emission-free shipping. The team saw zero-emission propulsion systems in the form of electric motors, fuel cells or combustion engines powered by ammonia, as holding the greatest potential in the near future.
Christian Oldendorff, entrepreneur and...
https://safety4sea.com/new-study-maps-out-routes-to-emission-free-shipping/
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV) announced it will empty oil from the ‘Finnbirch’ shipwreck, which has been leaking oil for over a year, off Öland, posing an environmental risk for local ecosystems of the Baltic Sea.
Back in October 2006, the 156-meters-long RoRo vessel ‘Finnbirch’, heavily loaded with wood and steel products, was en route from Helsinki for travel to Aarhus, Denmark.
During the passage between Öland and Gotland, the ship was caught in bad weather and...
https://safety4sea.com/leaking-roro-shipwreck-off-sweden-to-be-emptied-of-oil/
An Estonian soldier stands at attention as U.S. Marines with Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team-Europe approach in formation during a rehearsal for the Estonian National Day Parade outside the Estonia Academy of Security Sciences in Tallinn, Estonia, Feb. 23, 2019. US Marine Corps Photo
The foreign minister of one of the smallest nations in Europe said NATO only works when all the territories in the alliance are sacred and every member is committed “to die for your neighbor” if it is attacked.
“Th...
https://news.usni.org/2019/10/08/estonian-foreign-minister-makes-a-case-for-nato