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Our member company Oiltanking launched last week a new company and brand name: Advario. According their release: ” Carved out from Oiltanking, we are a new, leading global partner in liquid storage logistics, and are committed to taking up a front runner role in the energy transition by ensuring secure and sustainable storage infrastructure for...

MM Kotkamills is investing about €30 million in two state-of-the-art cross cutters with automated core and waste handling. The investment is aimed at strengthening MM Kotkamills’ position as a supplier of cartonboard sheets in the European cartonboard market. ”There is strong demand for the cartonboard from our board machine, which was started up in 2016....

Finneco I, the first of three ro-ro vessels in the Eco class was delivered at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) in China on 28 April 2022. According to the current plans Finneco I will enter Finnlines’ Baltic Sea, North Sea and Biscay traffic in June 2022. The first vessel of Finnlines’ EUR 500 million...

At this moment sanctions don’t impact transit container trains in any way and all our trains are running as normal. For example, transit time with our trains from Chongqing to Helsinki from mid-Jan to the end of February was an average of 14,5 days, a minimum of 12 days, and a maximum of 15 days....

Nurminen Logistics has signed an agreement with a leading global food company and will start port operations for temperature-controlled reefer containers in the Vuosaari harbor on 1 March 2022. Nurminen Logistics’ new container operation service has been tailored to the specific customer’s needs but will also be available to other customers in the future. The...

The demand for Nurminen’s multimodal transport has been very high at the beginning of the year. And the transport capacity of existing shipping connections between Finland and Sweden has not met the need. For this reason, Nurminen has started to concentrate container traffic in the ports of Norrköping and Gävle and, together with his partner,...

Stena Line is continuing to expand in the Baltic Sea together with Ports of Stockholm. As early as February next year, the shipping company will introduce a brand new route between Stockholm Norvik Port and Hanko in Finland. “It’s a pleasure to welcome a new service linking Stockholm Norvik Port and the Port of Hanko....

Finnlines Plc Press release 31.8.2021 Finnlines’ Newbuilding Programme proceeds as planned. The second hybrid ro-ro vessel was launched on 30 August 2021 and the keel laying ceremony for the third vessel took place on 31 August. The series of three ro-ro vessels are being built at the Chinese Jinling shipyard located in Nanjing. The first...

Avind International Oy acquires Transpoint International (FI) Oy and its two Russian subsidiaries owned by VR Group. With the acquisition, VR will divest its road logistics in Russia. Transpoint International has about 90 employees in Helsinki, Kotka and Vyborg. With the acquisition, Avind will become one of Finland’s largest Russian logistics companies, that offers services...