In August last year, Gdansk handled the largest tanker in the port’s history, which brought nearly 300,000 tonnes of Iranian oil for the Lotos Refinery. Read also: Tankers with Iranian crude oil reached Gdansk Already at that time, it was likely that this would not be the only delivery of […]
Minik Arctica, a multipurpose cargo and supply vessel, built at Remontowa Shipbuilding for Greenland-based Royal Arctic Line reached Greenland mid November. After delivery from the Polish Gdańsk-based yard on September 1, 2016, in Denmark, preparation works and crew training was in course until November 2, when the ship departed for […]
On December 15, 2016 in Shanghai, Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company Chipolbrok officially took delivery of a new general cargo ship. The naming and delivery ceremony of the ship took place in the Shanghai Shipyard on Chongming Island. The ship named Paderewski, built at Shanghai Shipyard in 2016 is a […]
National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) and Polish company CIECH Trading SA, a subsidiary of Ciech SA are willing to sign an agreement aimed at transporting Iranian crude, LNG and petrochemicals as well as bunkering of ships. Based in Warsaw, CIECH Trading was established in 1987 and currently is the largest […]
PKN Orlen will continue to work with Saudi Aramco as a supplier of crude oil to its refineries in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania – the Polish refiner informs. According to PKN Orlen, the contract has been extended for another year, until December 31st 2017. As we can learn […]
On the 1st of July 2015, entered into force the Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emission from maritime transport, and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013. The changes were accepted by the Council on 5th March 2015 (17086/1/14 REV 1). […]
LOTOS and PGNiG delivered 120 CBM (120 thousand litres) of liquefied natural gas as bunker fuel for Siem Harmony, a modern Platform Supply Vessel currently under construction in the Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyard, to enable its sea trials before commissioning. The gas was transported by tank cars from the Lech Kaczyński […]
The Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co. (Chipolbrok) is continuing its fleet replacement. Its brand new heavy cargo vessel Chipolbrok Atlantic has set a record transporting 150 wind turbine blades, each 49 metres long on its maiden voyage from north China to the US west coast. The cargo was loaded onto […]
Polish ship design office Remontowa Marine Design & Consulting Ltd. has won the public tender for the development of concept and classification design of ro-ro passenger ship for the largest Croatian ferry operator Jadrolinija Maritime Liner Company. The ferry will be designated to operate in the Adriatic Sea between the […]
The investments on the Oder river, where works eliminating bottlenecks will soon begin, are the government’s priority. The implementation of the government program is to benefit the entire economy – developing river transport, and with it this branch of industry, and improving flood safety. Navigability of the rivers will be […]
On July 28, 2016 a Polish state-owned Nauta shiprepair yard concluded a cooperation agreement with Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). The agreement provides for newbuildings and repair of ships operated by the IRISL Group. Details of the agreement are to be discussed and clarified in the coming two […]
On Thursday, June 9, 2016, in a political show off (backing the Polish government’s shipbuilding industry revival program), in the presence of Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo, during the 4th “International Maritime Congress” held in Szczecin, a letter of intent was signed by Polska Zegluga Baltycka (Polferries), the Polish Development Fund and […]
On the 2nd June 2016 the largest container vessel ever built with the capacity of 19,224 TEU MSC Maya arrived at the Deepwater Container Terminal in Gdansk for the first time. The giant ship, which belongs to MSC, travels to DCT as a part of a weekly oceanic service of […]
Tarros, the Multimodal Transport Operator specialized in intra-Mediterranean services, is further upgrading its regular container service connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Mediterranean Levant and Libya. In the next days a third vessel shall be deployed on this line, allowing a sailing frequency of ten days from each one of the […]
On the 8th of December 2015 the naming and delivery ceremony of Chipolbrok Pacific took place in the Shanghai Shipyard on Chongming Island. Chipolbrok Pacific is a state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designed for carriage of heavy lifts and project cargoes with 32 000 dwt, 190 meters length overall and width of […]
Effective from January 1st, 2016, German based United Heavy Lift (UHL) and EuroAfrica Shipping Lines (ESL), operating from Szczecin, Poland, agreed a strategic and exclusive cooperation. United Heavy Lift has been nominated by ESL as commercial agent (booking) for Germany and several other European countries (including Austria and Italy). At the same time ESL […]
