Dredging International, Van Oord win modernisation contract for the Świnoujście – Szczecin fairway in Poland.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/261631/consortium-to-upgrade-swinoujscie-szczecin-fairway/
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Poland to build Baltic Sea canal to bypass Russia
Poland wants to build a canal through a narrow strip of land that blocks the Vistula Lagoon on the north-east coast from the Baltic Sea. The president of Poland’s ruling party noted the canal will be built through a split of land near the Russian border.
Currently, Polish ships leaving from the port of Elblag have to pass through Russian waters to get to the open sea. The canal will show the Russians the days they dictated to Poland are over, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said.
Earlier this month Russia...
https://safety4sea.com/poland-to-build-baltic-sea-canal-to-bypass-russia/
Poland to build canal through lagoon to the Baltic
Poland is to build a short canal so that ships leaving from one of its ports will no longer need to transit Russian waters. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice, said this week the 1 km long canal cutting through the Vistula lagoon in the northeast of the country to the […]
https://splash247.com/poland-to-build-canal-through-lagoon-to-the-baltic/
Tall Ship “Dar Mlodzeizy” Graces Cape Town
On the morning of 15th August 2018 Tall Ship “Dar Mlodzeizy” (Gift of the Youth) arrived in the Port of Cape Town, as part of her 1918 – 2018 Independence Sea Journey, with her 3015 square metres of sails filled with a northerly wind and her bow cutting gracefully through the Atlantic waves, carrying 40 crew and 136 cadets for a two day stopover in the Mother City.
Dar Mlodzeizy is a Tall Ship sail training vessel built in Gdansk Shipyards, launched in 1981, owned by Gdynia Maritime University...
http://www.sashippingnews.com/2018/08/17/tall-ship-dar-mdlodzeizy-graces-cape-town/