Cosco feeder to call Southampton
NewsCOSCO is introducing a new weekly call at DP World Southampton, as part of a rotation including St Petersburg, Kotka, Southampton and Rotter...
Finnish-Russian timber dispute sidelined by Georgia war
NewsThe growing crisis in the Black Sea has overshadowed a trade dispute between Russia and Finland over timber tariffs....
Severstaltrans buys into Multi-Link Terminals
NewsN-Trans (the new name for Severstaltrans) is increasing its influence over container handling in the Baltic...
Transit traffic and forest products boost Kotka
NewsIncreasing containerisation of forest product exports and Russian transit traffic have provided the Port of Kotka with unprecedented growth ...
In desperate need of a decongestant
NewsThe sheer scale of growth in Russian container demand has overwhelmed the capacity of the country’s Baltic ports....
The Baltic Vision
NewsFinland’s Visy Oy continues to have success with its access and area control solutions in the Baltic and Balkan Markets....
Kotka storms ahead in container stakes
NewsFor the first time ever, this year the Port of Kotka is set to overtake Helsinki to become Finland’s largest lolo container port. Kotka ha...
Running in order to stand still
NewsContainer traffic has been growing strongly in the eastern Baltic, mainly on the strength of rising consumer demand in northwest Russia, the...
Transfennica moves into a new class
NewsWith the first of its eight con-ro ship series, TIMCA, scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2006, Transfennica is set for a maj...
Ports focus on unitised cargo flows
NewsRising container throughput due mainly to Russian transit traffic flows and the thrust of StoraEnso’s Finnish SECU project are the main dr...
Setting big store by automated clamps
NewsPhase one of Stora Enso’s North European Transport Supply System (NETSS), involving the unitisation into SECUs of southern Finnish exports...
MLT gets finance
NewsGerman-based specialist transport bank DVB Bank AG has closed a 10-year E45 mill project financing deal for Multi-Link Terminals (MLT) E71 m...
Ringing the changes in Kotka
NewsTraffic at Kotka’s purpose-built Mussalo container terminal has increased to the point where some users have complained about service leve...
Steveco plans paying off
News“The pieces are falling into place,” says Olli Parikka, Steveco’s marketing director, of his company’s long-term planning goals....
Dust-free in Mussalo
NewsA new, enclosed conveyor system from Roxon rated at 500 tph for burnt limestone has recently been installed at the Mussalso bulk terminal in...