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BG Freight Line, in partnership with Maersk, is starting a new weekly Waterford-Rotterdam feeder service. It is expected to appeal especially to Irish agri-food exporters and also to customers shipping containers to/from Africa, Asia and the Americas via Rotterdam.
Port of Waterford chief executive, Frank Ronan, said: “Reflecting Ireland’s economic growth, the port continues to perform well and this additional service will allow us provide new capacity to the many businesses ...
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Combined total traffic through the Port of Cork and Bantry Bay Port Company reached 10.3 million tonnes in 2017, up 8.6% compared to 2016. Cork’s container volumes through its Tivoli and Ringaskiddy terminals grew by 3.7%, with 217,763teu handled in 2017.
Chief executive Brendan Keating added that while Cork saw over ...
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Peel Ports’ short-sea shipping arm BG Freight Line is to introduce four ‘Irelandmax’ container vessels onto its Irish Sea routes in 2018. The 13,250-tonne, 153m long ships, with a nominal capacity of 1004teu will be able to carry 488 45ft boxes in all positions. Odd-sized containers can also be stowed ...
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Peel Ports' short-sea arm, BG Freight Line, is to launch services to the West Coast Scottish port of Greenock. Three 1,000teu ships will operate on a rotation - Rotterdam (Friday), Liverpool (Monday/Tuesday), Belfast (Wednesday/Thursday), Greenock (Friday), Liverpool (Saturday/Sunday) and Rotterdam (Tuesday). The carrier said that there was significant market demand, ...
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Several shipping lines say that they will implement a fuel surcharge when the International Maritime Organisation's new Emission Control Area for North Europe comes into force from 1 January 2015. They include leading container carrier MSC – further details are at www.mscgva.ch. The ECA imposes stringent new limits on ships' ...
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Tilbury's London Container Terminal has signed an agreement with MSC Geneva, Italian freight forwarder Zeta System and shipping operator BG Freight to launch a new UK East Coast feeder service. The weekly service which will call at Rotterdam, Tilbury Immingham, Felixstowe and Grangemouth, Scotland and is aimed especially at Italian ...
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The first UK feeder service has operated from the new London Gateway port, to PD Ports’ Teesport in north-east England. BG Freight Line's Cetus J, berthed at DP World’s London Gateway before making her scheduled visit to Teesport on December 28.
Geoff Lippitt, PD Ports’ business development director, said: “We are ...
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Peel Ports' shortsea and feeder subsidiary BG Freight Line is to increase the frequency of its services between Rotterdam, Liverpool and Ireland following a surge in demand.
The Jork Ruler and Doris Schepers will join the Margareta B to provide an express twice-weekly connection between Rotterdam and Liverpool. The Jork Ruler ...
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BG Freight Line is introducing a weekly container service using a 700teu ship between Rotterdam, Liverpool and Belfast on 21 July. Departures from Rotterdam are on Monday, arriving Liverpool Wednesday and Belfast of Thursday and arriving back in Rotterdam om Saturday. Connections are available in Liverpool for destinations on the Manchester ...
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