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Polsteam orders four ”lake vessels” in China

The signing of a contract for the construction of four 37,000-t bulk carriers for the Polish Steamship Company (Polsteam – PŻM) for navigation on the…

Draft budget: next year PLN 210 million for a waterway across the spit

The construction of a waterway linking the Vistula Lagoon with the Gulf of Gdansk will receive PLN 210 million from the state budget next year,…

Contract for Polferries’ ferry signed

A contract for a ferry for Polska Żegluga Bałtycka (Polferries) has been signed, deputy infrastructure minister Marek Gróbarczyk announced in Kołobrzeg on Thursday. The unit…

Another hotel floating on the Nile will be built under PRS supervision

In mid-July this year. The Polish Register of Shipping concluded a contract with Wings AMA of Cairo for the construction of a floating hotel that…

11 ships with coal for PGE sail to Poland

Eleven ships with coal for the Polish Energy Group are sailing to Poland, that’s 700,000 tonnes of raw material, PGE president Wojciech Dąbrowski said on…

First phase of the waterway linking the Vistula Lagoon with the Bay of Gdansk complete!

The final works on the construction of the Vistula Spit Shipping Canal are underway. Almost everything is ready in the land part of this project,…

Viking Mars in Gdansk

Viking Mars is an ocean-going ship built this year by Viking Cruises, a Swiss shipowner with its capital roots in Norway. On Tuesday, 19 July,…

Stena Line introduces the Stena Ebba E-Flexer ferry

Stena Line introduces the second large E-Flexer of its Baltic Sea expansion to operate Karlskrona-Gdynia with its sister vessel Stena Estelle.

Venezuela’s first oil tanker in two years has set sail for Europe

A cargo of 650,000 barrels of heavy crude oil has set sail from Venezuela on a tanker chartered by Italian oil company Eni, Reuters reported…

Horała: development of Elbląg area will accelerate after the opening of the cross-bow

The development of the Elbląg land and Elbląg itself will accelerate after the opening of the crosscut across the Vistula Spit, deputy infrastructure minister Marcin…

Crossing of the Vistula Spit will soon be ready

The investment to create a new waterway on the Vistula Spit is taking its final shape. The navigation channel lock has already been filled with…

PGNiG: third of six LNG supplies planned for June has arrived in Poland

The third of six LNG supplies planned for June has arrived in Poland. The volume of the delivered fuel after regasification will amount to 93…

Vistula Spit shipping channel filled with water, equipment tests underway

The navigation channel on the Vistula Spit, which will open on 17 September, has already been filled with water. Contractors are testing devices that will…

Sluice flooding continues in Spit shipping channel

In the navigation channel through the Vistula Spit, flooding of the sluice has begun. The filling is taking place from the side of Gdansk Bay….

First of new Stena Line ferries for Gdynia-Karlskrona line handed over to the owner

The largest representative of the E-Flexer class so far was handed over to the shipowner by a Chinese shipyard on 24 May, reportedly slightly ahead…

Lynette Bryson, Stena Line’s first female captain

18 May is the official International Women at Sea Day, established by the IMO (International Maritime Organization). It is a day when the global shipping…

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