40 representatives from Baltic ports, shipping lines and maritime administrations gathered on January 19th at a BPO seminar in Copenhagen to share their various opinions on the consequences of IMO’s new marine fuel sulphur regulations. BPO will now work on its position on this matter.

Baltic Ports Organization within the framework of TransBaltic Project organizes the Seminar & Debate: "Baltic Motorways of the Sea - barriers and challenges". The main goal of the Seminar is ti identify main barriers in applying the MoS concept in the Baltic Sea.

Rapid growth in cargo volumes of 2007 gave way to slightly negative volume development in the Baltic Sea region in 2008. The throughput of maritime transports and cargo in the Baltic Sea Region’s ports witnessed two opposing, general trends during the year 2008: the year began with comfortable growth expectations, but ended in an economic recession.