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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS 2009:
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Maritime
Stella Lines closed its passenger service between Helsinki and St. Petersburg.[...]
CMA CGM and FESCO have established a new, large volume, Baltic Sea feeder service between Hamburg and St. Petersburg.[...]
Scandlines GmbH decided to cease its ferry route joining the Danish Jutland (Arhus and Aabenraa ports) and the Lithuanian port Klaipeda.[...]
Containerships plans to increase its involvement
in the Baltic container cargo transport.[...]
NYK established a representative officein St. Petersburg that concentrates on increasing the Japanese carrier’s business within the Northwest Federal District of Russia.[...]
MacGREGOR combines its offshore and bulk handling equipment activities and forms a new Merchant Ship division.[...]
Finnlines tested the route to Vuosaari Harbour with its state-of-the-art ro/ro vessel Finnstar.[...]
The European Commission will organize workshops and sessions at the upcoming Baltic Development Forum Summit 30 November – 2 December in Copenhagen and Malmo of the general topic “How to make the Baltic Sea Region a Prosperous Place”.[...]
The Port of Helsinki,in cooperation with the Finnish Maritime, Rail and Road Administrations, is set to open a new harbour in Vuosaari.[...]
On 12th October the TUI AG Supervisory Board approved the sale of its container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd.[...]
On the 4th of November Victor Schoenmakers
was elected new chairman of the European Sea Ports Organisation. [...]
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Aviation
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport has been given the green light by the regional Environmental Court to begin building a cooling and heating system for the airport utilising an aquifer.[...]
Finnair and Finncomm Airlines have formed Finnish Aircraft Maintenance Oy (FAM), a 50/50 joint venture which will specialise in maintenance services for regional aircraft.[...]
Lufthansa Cargo AG and DB Schenker reported that they have dispatched the first paperless air freight shipment from Germany.[...]
Lufthansa elected the passenger and aircraft
service provided by Tallinn Airport GH Ltd to be the most punctual in the world.[...]
After a battle to keep the company alive,the management of Sterling Airlines decided to file for bankruptcy.[...]
Riga International Airport has started the construction of its Rixport business park, wishing to attract the headquarters of major local and international corporations to long- and short-term office rentals at the airport facility in the central point of Northern Europe.[...]
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Hinterland
The building of the Koidula border railway station in Estonia, scheduled to be completed
by the end of 2011, is to create a prime location for the development of an industrial combined logistics centre.[...]
Autolink Baltics, a company founded this year, is preparing to start shipping new cars to Russia by rail.[...]
Kuehne + Nagel is building a modern logistics
centre which includes 45,000 sqm of warehousing and handling space.[...]
RZD (Russian Railways) has received RUB 45.5 billion from the investment fund into their projects.[...]
The coal traffic situation in Russia requires modification of the existing tariff system. Thanks to this the operator companies will be able to improve their overall performance.[...]
One of the biggest deals ever in Russian heavy industry has been called off.The Canadian
concern Bombardier has severed negotiations on a merger with Transmash holding, the Russian monopoly manufacturer of locomotives.[...]
The German government announced that it was terminating the planned stock market flotation of DBMobility Logistics AG(DBML),the transport, freight forwarding and logistics business of German group Deutsche Bahn.[...]
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