• +19.5% roro freight
• It reflects the recovery from the significant volume reductions in June 2020 caused by lockdowns related to Covid-19.
• Mediterranean’s volume increase was the highest in June 2021 as the volume recovery in 2020 in this region lagged Northern Europe due to a high share of automotive volumes.
• Trading between the EU and the UK continued to be robust.
• -4% passengers reflecting the continued tight travel restrictions.
• Baltic Sea’s passenger volumes were above 2020.
• The Oslo-Frederikshavn-Copenhagen route was reopened on 2 July 2021.
• Passenger volumes on The English Channel are expected to start to increase following the UK’s ‘reopening’ currently scheduled for 19 July 2021.

According to the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index 2021, which was recently released by the Chinese news agency:

• The Port of Piraeus gets the 5^th place as an international center for shipping services
• The shipping center of Athens/Piraeus maintains the eighth place as last year

The Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index, is an independent index that ranks the various regions of the world that offer shipping and port services in a list according to the size of the port, the cargo it serves, the companies it hosts and offered services (brokerage, legal, financial, insurance, procurement, construction, etc.) in the shipping industry, etc.

The delivery of AURORA BOTNIA will be further delayed. The new delivery date is 30 July, with traffic starting in early August.

Monday 12 July saw the first commercial departure of roro vessel MAXINE from Calais to Sheerness (London). This is a pure roro service, only taking unaccompanied freight.

Frequency: 1 departure per day in each direction, 7/7.

E-flexer COTE D’OPALE arrived in Calais on Saturday morning (10 July), after its long delivery journey from China.

She was greeted by the other DFDS ships, who were flagged overall.

Later during the day she tried the different berths in Calais’ old and new port.

On Monday she went to Dover, before heading to Dunkerque for a planned drydock session.

Wärtsilä will provide the main and auxiliary engines, as well as the fuel storage and supply system, for a new Italian ferry designed to operate on LNG.

The vessel is under construction at the Sefine shipyard in Turkey and has been ordered by Caronte & Tourist Isole Minori, based in Milazzo, Italy. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in the first quarter of 2021.

Stena Rederi AB and Ventspils Port Companies have signed a Letter of Intent regarding the management of their port and logistics activities in Latvia. The intention is to explore the potential of Stena managing the terminals and railway companies on behalf of Ventspils Port Companies.