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SUN Line adds Sweden/Hull route

[ November 4, 2022   //   ]

Thor Svecon Group (TSG) has added a new routing on its SUN Line Line service between Sweden, the Netherlands and Hull.

The 660TEU MV Perseus will operate a weekly Stockholm (Norvik)-Hull-Rotterdam rotation from 8 November.

TSG already operates the Alrek (220TEU), Frej and Odin (both 178TEU) between Västerås (about 50km west of Stockholm), Oxelosund (80kn south-west of Stockholm) Amsterdam and Hull.

TSG has been operating the services since 2014 after taking over the TransAtlantic service, the successor to the Pal Line service which originally operated to Goole.

The company says it has seen increased demand from freight buyers for transport between Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK and the extra ship will add container capacity, increase flexibility and offer faster lead times.

TSG AB chief executive Eric Hjalmarsson said: “We have seen the need for a fourth vessel for some time and now that time has come. Starting from Sweden’s newest port, Stockholm/Norvik, feels like a natural step and completely in line with our goal to strengthen our position in east coast shipping.”

Chief executive of Hutchison Ports Stockholm, Lawrence Yam, added: “The extended connectivity from Stockholm/Norvik to Rotterdam is going to provide our customer more options and even more flexible and faster transit to the major hub port in Europe. A direct link to Rotterdam would enable connectivity to new services and to different parts of the world.

“We are very happy to see that SUN Line is seeing the benefits of starting up a new service that will give their customers the fastest transit to the Greater Stockholm Area.”

TSG AB’s customers are mainly in the industrial sector solutions including freight forwarding, liner agency, warehousing and clearance operations, focusing on complex cargo and challenging geographies. The company has its own growing short sea liner services and its own port terminal in the UK.

TSG Terminal is a daughter company of TSG and operates its own multipurpose terminal in Hull with its own stevedores. The deep water in dock berth has three Liebherr harbour mobile cranes with single hook lift capacity of up to 124tonnes. There is also a direct rail connection and 8,500sq m of dehumidified warehousing for weather sensitive cargoes.

TSG Terminal managing director Thomas Bryansaid: “When TSG took over the terminal in 2014 there was just the Sunline service with 450,000tonnes per annum so we have grown fast with new services and customers in the past eight years.”

Last year the terminal handled 1.2 million tonnes of unitised and breakbulk cargo.

The terminal also handles three calls per week by P&O Ferries service operated by the 650teu MV Freya from Zeebrugge.

The terminal also handles a bi-weekly service operated by AtoB@C Shipping from Finland.

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