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26/01/2012 - Extra Fast Lines vessel to Saint Petersburg

Fast Lines has the ice-class vessel MV Fast Gilles on time charter to guarantee its service to Saint Petersburg during the winter months ...


26/01/2012 - New agency and ships for TransBothnia Line

For the weekly departures out of Antwerp and Zeebrugge to the Finnish ports of Oulu and Kemi Best & Osterrieth has been appointed as commercial agents ...


26/01/2012 - Transfennica increases capacity

To cope with the increasing volumes the MS Kraftca and the MS Timca are being deployed on the Zeebrugge-Bilbao service since the beginning of January ...


26/01/2012 - BG Freight Line twice weekly to Grangemouth

The sailing schedule from Antwerp has since 24 January been reduced from three to two weekly departures on Monday and Wednesday ...


26/01/2012 - Transport Infrastructure: Commission makes €200 million available for key TEN-T projects

The European Commission launched today a Call for Proposals under the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) annual programme, making €200 million available to co-finance projects in several specific priority areas ...


23/12/2011 - New environmentally-friendly containers at OPDR

With this investment OPDR increases its fleet of containers by more than 20 percent from 7,000 to 8,500 units ...


23/12/2011 - Seago Line together with Hamburg Süd to the Med

At the beginning of the new year Seago Line's Eurolev and Euromed services and Hamburg Süd's NEMN service will be replaced by two new weekly services ...


23/12/2011 - Unifeeder launches weekly container service Antwerp - Saint Petersburg

As from 23 January Unifeeder is going ahead with a new weekly container service between Antwerp and Saint Petersburg ...


23/12/2011 - La Nuit du Shortsea

On 7 December our colleagues of the French shortsea promotion centre BP2S organised in the vicinity of Paris the first "Nuit du Shortsea" ...