WATERFRONT
New E-Flexer makes debut
BALTIC FERRY
Stena Line´s newest addition to the fleet and the latest E-Flexer to be completed, Stena Estelle, made her Baltic debut in early September. She left the shipyard in East China in June, and passed through Singapore, India, the Middle East and Gibraltar before setting course towards the Baltic Sea. She was taken to the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk for final adjustments.
On 3 September the new vessel was formally named by Deputy Mayor of Gdynia for Economy, Katarzyna Gruszecka-Spychała, the ship’s godmother. The 240m 1,200-passenger vessel then took up service on the Gdynia-Karlskrona route on 4 September.
Drought affects Rhine shipping
INLAND TRANSPORT
Due to the European-wide drought, concerns have been raised with regard to ships navigating the River Rhine, as water levels dropped significantly. The river is a key logistics corridor, with millions of tons of cargo, including containers, coal, petroleum products, steel products and ore, carried by inland barges along about 540 miles, from the North Sea at Rotterdam to the Swiss-German border.
In August levels dropped at Kaub, a location west of Frankfurt, between Koblenz and Mainz, to around 30cm for
