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Shortsea Shipping Shortsea shipping Click on the news title to view the full article New shortsea link with multipurpose vessels (16 views) Sloman Neptun offers alternative to road transport between France and Germany 17/11/2005 The Antwerp Trader in action (31 views) Th e Antwerp Trader of AGS Shipping is already fully in service . 8/11/2005 AGS Shipping launches an extra ship on line Saint Petersburg-Antwerp. (41 views) From now on two calls per week in Antwerp. 26/10/2005 European Shortsea Database (click on logo and then on liner services) 5833 people visited ESN Verbindingsdok Oostkaai 13 B10, B 2000 Antwerpen Tel : + 32 3 20 20 520, Fax : + 32 3 20 20 524, E-mail : shortsea@shortsea.be news recent news article News Recent News article New shortsea link with multipurpose vessels With the new call at the French port Lorient (between Nantes and Brest) by its two multipurpose vessels in the liner service between Germany, Belgium, Algeria, and Southern Spain the shipowner Sloman Neptun offers an interesting alternative to road transport. The port of Lorient is being included in the regular southbound service that is being serviced by Sloman Neptun S & T Bremen between the Northern European Continent (Bremen-Harwich-Antwerp) and Northern Africa (Algeria-Tunesia and Libya). In the Northern European ports goods with destination Lorient can be loaded. The transit time amounts appr. 3 to 6 days, depending on the harbour of departure and the rotation. 2 to 3 multipurpose vessels (roro-breakbulk-heavy lifts-long lengths-containers) currently call at Lorient on a monthly basis. This extra call completes the service to the Mediterranean whereby the port of Cartagena (Spain) - apart from other ports - is already being call at during the Northbound trip of the vessels mentioned above. The transit time to Antwerp is 6 to 9 days, depending on the rotatie of the ship. Rotation scheme: Bremen - Antwerp - Harwich* - Lorient - Leixoes* - Oran - Algiers - Cartagena - Lorient - Bremen (* if sufficient inducement) More information at: Neptumar Sint Pietersvliet 15 - B 2000 Antwerpen Tel: +32(0)3-220.02.70 - Fax: +32(0)3-220.02.90 Contact: Johan Vonck - Tel: +32(0)3-220.02.73 - johan_vonck@neptumar.be 17/11/2005 back to overview news recent news article News Recent News article The Antwerp Trader in action O n Fr ida y 28/10 the ship ar r ived in Antwerp for the first time. It's steering course to Russia for the moment . The vessels ships 3.500 ton nes of concentr at ed zin c wi t h destination S a int-Petersburg. Contact: AGS Shipping Europe NV Hilaire Covens - Tel: +32 3-543.22.88 - h.covens@agseurope.com - http://www.transy.ru 8/11/2005 back to overview news recent news article News Recent News article AGS Shipping launches an extra ship on line Saint Petersburg-Antwerp. Since 8 years AGS/Transy Ltd has been running a regular conventional service between Saint Petersburg and Western Europe. Upto now Antwerp has been called at only once a week. Since shortly the shipowner bought an icestrengthened twin decker that entered into the rotation scheme whereby Antwerp is called twice a week. The ship was baptised as m/v Antwerp Trader . The ships on the service Saint Petersburg-Antwerp mainly ship steel products. Due to Antwerp's strong reputation in steel business, Antwerp is the most important southbound port of call with over 220.000 tonnes of freight. 40.000 tonnes are exported. Northbound mainly small bulk and break bulk are transported. Contact: AGS Shipping Europe NV Hilaire Covens - Tel: +32 3-543.22.88 - h.covens@agseurope.com http://www.transy.ru 26/10/2005 back to overview news recent news overview News Recent News If you are looking for older news articles, feel free to browse in our archives . Click on the news title to view the full article. New shortsea link with multipurpose vessels (17 views) Sloman Neptun offers alternative to road transport between France and Germany 17/11/2005 The Antwerp Trader in action (32 views) Th e Antwerp Trader of AGS Shipping is already fully in service . 8/11/2005 Kursiu Linija expands specialised container fleet. (27 views) 45ft pallet-wide high-cube curtainsider units reduce costs 26/10/2005 Last week the Port of Brussels received its first sea vessel. (22 views) In 2005 Brussels aims at 10.000 TEU of sea cargo. 26/10/2005 AGS Shipping launches an extra ship on line Saint Petersburg-Antwerp. (42 views) From now on two calls per week in Antwerp. 26/10/2005 news newsarchive overview News News archive Click on the news title to view the full article. New Transfennica line with 3 sailings per week. (22 views) New express service between Gdynia and Hanko starts on January 1st, 2006. 25/10/2005 Superfast Ferries pursues network optimisation (25 views) As of 8th November, 2005, the Superfast Ferries Scotland-Belgium service in the North Sea, will be operated with Superfast X. 21/10/2005 China Shipping (loading Antwerp) serves North Africa and East Med (100 views) New possibilities in transhipment 18/07/2005 Portlink on own power to Portugal (105 views) Portlink steps out of Joint Portugal Service 18/07/2005 NYK Expands North Europe Mediterranean Service (88 views) NYK announced that its first container service from North Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean will commence on July 26th by joining the Hapag-Llyod s EEX service. 15/07/2005 Grimaldi recently also to Cagliari (60 views) In 11 days from Antwerp to Sardinia 4/07/2005 Informal ESN meeting with Transport Committee of European Parliament (61 views) 30/06/2005 Delphis starts container service Antwerp-Bilbao (81 views) As from Thursday June, 23rd Delphis introduces a new service from Antwerp to/from Bilbao on a weekly basis. 21/06/2005 OOCL Further Enhances its Scan Baltic Express (SBX) Services (72 views) Two separate dedicated fixed-day weekly service schedules 10/06/2005 Lithuania introduces road tax for lorries (79 views) Since May 31: road tax for inland and foreign trucks 3/06/2005 From now on Kursiu Linija via Zeebrugge (82 views) Via its co-operation with the Lithuanian carrier, ECS offers a door-to-door solution to its customers from UK/I re land/Continent to th e Baltic state s a n d Rus sia . 2/06/2005 New feeder service at Zeebrugge (94 views) APL establishes new link to Zeebrugge for Irish customers 30/05/2005 SSS Fact Sheet Containers online available (82 views) Shortsea Promotion Centre Belgium publishes a Fact Sheet of containers . 30/05/2005 Oostende steps into European Network (ENA). (77 views) The official Eurocoast Network Association (ENA) was established in Paris on the 13th April 2005. The main purpose of the project is to set up a Motorways of the Sea between the ports of Cuxport, Oostende, Cherbourg, Rosslare and the Spanish company Perrez Torres. 20/05/2005 New enhanced port coverage with European Express Service (EEX) (104 views) As from April 23rd 2005, Hapag-Lloyd Container Line will operate the existing EEX service independently. 25/04/2005 Weekly container sailings to Saint-Petersburg. (181 views) Enhanced sailings to Russia. 11/04/2005 New Ro-Ro connection to Immingham. (222 views) Ferryways inaugurated a new Ro-Ro connection to Immingham. The company now offers 21 departures per week to Ipswich, 6 to Killingholme and 9 to Immingham (initial phase). 16/02/2005 Nieuwpoortse Handelsmaatschappij obtains concession of former marine zone. (158 views) The |||Nieuwpoortse Handelsmaatschappij||| (NHM) will establish a sand and gravel terminal in the outer port of Oostende. The company expects an average annual throughput of 300,000 tonnes. 15/02/2005 2004: Traffic Shortsea Shipping exceeds 107 million tonnes. (172 views) Increase of 21 percent in respect to 1999. 14/02/2005 More bricks with sea/river coaster to the UK. (139 views) Heylen-Bricks continues transport of bricks along Albert canal. 28/01/2005 New service to Esbjerg. (192 views) From now on Cobelfret also offers direct roro possibilities to Denmark. 18/01/2005 Conventional cargo to Iskenderun (Turkey). (214 views) New service to Iskenderun from Antwerp. 21/12/2004 More container & reefer services from/to the Baltic States and UK. (206 views) Scan Baltic Express of OOCL: a new dimension. 16/12/2004 Bricks with SSS-sea/river coaster to the UK. (242 views) Facing bricks with SSS-sea/river coaster from Lanaken along the Albert canal to the United Kingdom. 30/11/2004 New container sailings to Saint Petersbourg. (181 views) November 2004, the commencement of a new container service has been announced. 26/11/2004 Unique surveillance system opertional in Port of Ostend. (175 views) The port of Ostend and its port users have drawn attention since many years in the field of security issues, both for safety of people and security of terminals. Next to the substantial investments in fences, Schengen gate, new entrance and exit gates, 4 heartbeat detectors the port of Ostend has now installed a unique camera surveillance system in order to meet the ISPS and EU regulations. 16/11/2004 DFDS to commence new Zeebrugge/Immingham Ro/Ro service (251 views) In January 2005 DFDS Tor Line will commence a new daily Ro/Ro service with two Ro/Ro vessels between Zeebrugge and Immingham. 28/10/2004 More direct market approach: the result of yearly ESN meeting. (212 views) Contacting shippers to point out shortsea as cost efficient door-to-door solution in Europe. 19/10/2004 State of the art portal for ESN. (200 views) Renewed website www.shortsea.info with new design, fresh, modern look and easier to navigate for the user. 14/10/2004 Launch of DFDS’ fifth ro-ro newbuilding from Flensburg Shipyard. (225 views) 5th freight vessel launched. 5/10/2004 Figures Shortsea Shipping first 6 months 2004: continuous increase of traffic. (231 views) 2004 prolonges increasing 2003 trend. 29/09/2004 Distribution of perishables in direct transhipment Airport-Seaport. (225 views) Shipping of African fruits via Ostend to the United Kingdom. 17/09/2004 DFDS prolongs transport contract with Saab Automobile. (222 views) Car transport guaranteed on route Gothenburg-Immingham-Ghent for next three years. 17/09/2004 Ro-Ro traffic: corner stone of continuing growth. (239 views) Shortsea in the port of Oostende grows steadily. 13/07/2004 European Shortsea Network launches first annual activity report. (310 views) The European Shortsea network is pleased to announce the publication of its First Annual Report. The report, which reviews the activities of its 15-strong members, has been officially launched at a Shortsea high level meeting of representatives of EU Ministries of Transport in Rotterdam on the 18th May 2004. 9/07/2004 Shortsea Promotion Centre Holland takes over ESN chairmanship. (203 views) SPC Holland will be chairman for the European Shortsea Network (ESN) for at least 9 months. 8/07/2004 Concorde Container Line extends its sailing schedule. (292 views) Direct call at Immingham. 2/07/2004 DFDS Tor Line increase capacity when celebrating the 10th anniversary on EuroBridge. (319 views) To meet the rising demand for transports DFDS Tor Line will increase capacity on EuroBridge, daily connecting Gothenburg in Sweden with Ghent in Belgium and coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the route. 13/05/2004 Opening a new roro connection as from 12 May 2004. (321 views) Import and export service between Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Saint Petersburg. 12/05/2004 Turkey Express. (259 views) New container service to Turkey. 20/04/2004 New agent for breakbulk services to Tunisia and Turkey. (256 views) TRS as new agent for Anmar Line. 16/04/2004 New agent for roro sailings from Zeebrugge. (268 views) Barwil Agencies is new agent of Wallenius Wilhelmsen. 16/04/2004 TransEuropa Ferries increases frequency of departures from 9 to 10 per day to Ramsgate (269 views) The ferry operator TransEuropa Ferries increased the number of sailings on the Ostend-Ramsgate line from 9 to 10, which was necessary to meet the continuing growth of traffic. 15/04/2004 New breakbulk ships with crane capacity upto 640 tonnes. (267 views) Export service Hamburg - Antwerp - Genoa and United Kingdom - Antwerp. 19/03/2004 ESF Euroservices: address point for Northern European and Baltic services. (419 views) ESF Euroservices gets commercial activities in own hands. 18/03/2004 Superfast Ferries: growing success service Zeebrugge-Rosyth. (268 views) The service Rosyth-Zeebrugge of Superfast Ferries transported more passengers and cargo in 2003. 15/03/2004 New service from/to Zeebrugge. (247 views) A new feeder service will be set up by CMA CGM. 12/03/2004 ESN delivers unique liner services search engine. (246 views) The European Shortsea Network|||s (ESN) launching of Europe|||s only comprehensive search engine for pan-European liner services. 26/02/2004 Stora Enso and DFDS in new agreement. (219 views) Traffic is diverted to Immingham. 24/02/2004 Atlas Copco uses waterways. (241 views) Atlas Copco chooses the waterways as it is an environment-friendly alternative for road transport. 21/01/2004 Concentration of Stora Enso shipments from 1st July, 2005. (216 views) Rescheduling of the Swedish and North Finnish paper shipments to the European mainland and the United Kingdom. 21/01/2004 Feasability study of re-introduction of rail ferries between Dunkirk, Dover and Zeebrugge (217 views) Uk agency starts project to |||multi-modalise||| connections between France, England and Belgium. 13/01/2004 Adjusted sailing schedule Concorde Container Line to UK. (278 views) No more direct sailings to Scottish Aberdeen. 5/01/2004 Information day Marco Polo on 28 October 2003 (267 views) 23/10/2003 Expansion feeder services MSC (355 views) Introduction new feeder service Antwerp-Baltics 13/10/2003 Increasing transport of Russian pinewood (273 views) 10/10/2003 MSC starts Antwerp-Gothenburg service (263 views) 10/10/2003 CMA CGM: feeder service between Zeebrugge and England (271 views) 10/10/2003 New sailings from Antwerp to Teesport (UK) (288 views) Concorde Container Line is starting a new service between Antwerp and Teesport (UK). 10/10/2003 Growing Zeebrugge traffic at Finnlines (281 views) The Finnish shipping company Finnlines, which offers services to and from its homeland, sees growing traffic in Zeebrugge. 10/10/2003 Extra link between Belgium, Italy and Turkey. (334 views) K Line is starting an additional service between the Northeast of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. 15/09/2003 Vessel Sharing Deal for shortsea routes to and from Great Britain and Ireland. (296 views) The Irish shipping group Irish Continental and the British Mersey Dock & Harbour Company are planning to work together on shortsea routes between Ireland, Great Britain and Continental Europe. 15/09/2003 Capacity increase of MSC feeder service (386 views) MSC is increasing the capacity of its feeder service between Antwerp and St Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga. 10/09/2003 More trailers on Dart Line vessels (368 views) Dart Line is doubling the capacity on its Zeebrugge-Dartford route. 10/09/2003 DFDS Tor Line increases its sailings between Ghent and Gothenburg (284 views) 7 sailings in stead of 6 10/09/2003 Lys-line expands its container services from Belgium to Norway (276 views) Direct links from Ghent to Larvik and from Antwerp to Oslofjord. 10/09/2003 New container service Benelux-Norway (247 views) Samskip is starting a new container service between Belgium and Norway. 10/09/2003 Weekly sailings to Tunesia via Grimaldi (332 views) New sailings for ro-ro, containers and general cargo on mafi 7/08/2003 Opening the window for water freight transport in the UK. (375 views) A new organisation in the UK for the promotion of freight loads carried by water. 24/07/2003 Grimaldi serves Roman region via Civitavecchia (311 views) Weekly sailings from Antwerp to Rome with Grimaldi. 18/07/2003 Port of Ostend: growth of ro-ro traffic continues undiminshed. (290 views) In the first semester of 2003 traffic has risen by 25% compared to the first half of 2002. 18/07/2003 New roro service from Finnlines from Zeebrugge to Finland (277 views) End December 2002 Finnlines started the new service 10/02/2003 Portlink launches new service on Portugal and Valencia. (341 views) Portlink start the service as from February 14th under |||Conmed beta||| on Portugal and Valencia. 10/02/2003 Ostend : new roro cargo service to Humber (255 views) As from end January 2002 a new roro cargo service will operate between Ostend and Humber with 6 sailings per week. 25/01/2002 Zeebrugge : return of Renault traffic - New ferry service Zeebrugge - Sheerness (338 views) Renault decided to return to Zeebrugge with the car traffic ex Santander (Spain). On top the export of Renault cars to Teesport UK will also be handled ex Zeebrugge. Mid January 2002 a new ferry service will start between Zeebrugge and Sheerness UK 4/01/2002 New regular conventional service to Algeria (319 views) Internaut Medlines (Bremen) starts a new conventional regular service from Antwerp to Algeria 4/01/2002 DFDS-Tor Line offers 2 more ports from Ghent to Norway : Brevik - Kristansand (299 views) From the port of Ghent, DFDS-Tor Line added (as from september 2001) two additional calls to its sailing schedule to Norway : Brevik and Kristiansand. 3/01/2002 Finnlines Cargo Services strengthens its position to Finland and the Baltic (313 views) Finnlines is extending its weekly sailing schedule as from Januari 2002 with a fifth departure for Finland : Helsinki 3/01/2002 A new conventional shortsea service to Ireland/United Kingdom and Portugal (302 views) Transsteel Line is offering a conventional service to Ireland/United Kingdom and Portugal for steelproducts and general cargo (no containers) 3/01/2002 Dublin-Willebroek coaster (381 views) On July 23th 2001 about 100 containers were discharged ex coaster Larochelle on the inland terminal TCT (Willebroek). 31/07/2001 New Superfast Ferries Service Zeebrugge-Rosyth (412 views) Bruges-Zeebrugge was finally chosen as the port on the Continent for the New Scotland-Europe Superfast Ferries Service. 26/07/2001 news recent news article News Recent News article Kursiu Linija expands specialised container fleet. Shortsea operator Kursiu Linija has expanded its specialised container fleet by building 100 45ft pallet-wide high-cube curtainsider units in China. The units will enter service on its routes linking Eastern and Western Europe during September. "Investment in these specialised containers is directly linked to the service needs of our high volume retail customers," explains Arijus Ramonas, managing director of Kursiu Linija. "Kursiu Linija is moving over 120,000 teu annually for major shippers, linking low-cost Eastern Europe suppliers with retail chains in Western Europe. These PWHC curtainsider containers allow retail shippers to ship goods in units which match a full standard trailer size, cutting down handling and reducing costs for the customer. Curtainsiders have the particular advantages of ease of access for quick loading and discharge, especially where no fork lift ramps are available. Our clients such as major DIY retail chains find them a particular help for handling the large volumes of garden panelling and other timber garden accessories which we ship from Poland and Russia. Soft-side side access containers are also a requirement for the chemical trade, which is growing in volume on our routes." Kursiu Linija has recently set up its own customer service offices in Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Hamburg. These offices will improve customer service, and Kursiu Linija has invested in one integrated IT system across all of them. Lithuania-based Kursiu Linija is an intra-European carrier providing cost effective door-to-door transportation services between the Baltic States, Poland, the CIS and the UK and Northern Europe. Its fleet of five vessels serves Klaipeda, Riga, Kaliningrad, Gdansk, Teesport, Ipswich, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven. For more information contact: Kursiu Linija - Martin Dale - Tel: +44 7802 497516 - m.dale@kursiu.lt - www.kursiu.lt 26/10/2005 back to overview news recent news article News Recent News article Last week the Port of Brussels received its first sea vessel. Thanks to its, for an inland port, exceptional accessibility, the Port of Brussels has been given the status of a sea port. This means that it is accessible round the clock, 365 days per year for both river and maritime traffic up to 4,500 tons (convoys up to 9,000 tons after completion of modernisation of the canal in Flanders); the new Wintam maritime lock links the sea canal to the river Scheldt and thus avoids problems of tides which ships encountered on the Rupel river. The Bugulma (1895 tb) is a Russian vessel that loaded about fifteen empty containers in Brussels last Friday. On Saturday morning the ship left the Port of Brussels with destination Hull (VK) to continue its sailing with full containers to Saint-Petersburg. The ship is an old dredger with a length of 69 metres and a width of 15 metres. In the year 2005 the Port of Brussels hopes to have treated a total of 10.000 TEU of sea cargo on the Brussels container terminal. More info at: Port of Brussels 6, place des Armateurs B-1000 Bruxelles Contact: Sylvain Godfroid - Tel: +32 2 421 66 53 - sgodfroid@port.irisnet.be 26/10/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article New Transfennica line with 3 sailings per week. Transfennica was established in 1976 to handle shipments of the Finnish forest industry. Today, Transfennica is a Ro-Ro carrier, with its head office in Helsinki operating a fleet offering fixed timetables for both Northbound and Southbound shipments between Belgium, Estonia, Germany, the U.K. and various Finnish ports. A new Gdynia-Hanko-Gdynia line will start on January 1st, 2006 with 3 sailings per week. Hanko will act as a hub port and have shipments to Antwerp, Tilbury, L beck and Paldiski. Transfennica wants to offer fast direct calls in order to offer best transit times. The sailing time is 20 hours and they claim to exploit the fastest service crossing of the Baltic from Finland. Transfennica aims to support their customers in developing a new central European distribution fast lane. The vessels can practically carry any general cargo - including Sto-Ro, containers, trailers, cassettes, mobile cargoes and project cargoes, as well as IMDG classified goods and temperature controlled units. The subsidiaries in the main ports (Antwerp, Gdynia, L beck, Paldiski, Tilbury and Hamina) are connected into an on-line network to offer support to the customers and safeguard a smooth daily operation. Transfennica's Ro-Ro fleet has an average age of 5 years. The line s strategy is to continually renew the fleet and in 2006 and 2007 six multi-purpose Ro-Ro newbuildings will enter their fleet to strengthen their position as a leading European Ro-Ro operator. The carrying capacity is approximately double for containers and trailers in comparison to the present successful fifth generation of 20+ knot fleet. The line s fleet of equipment incorporates approximately 4000 units including mafis, cassettes, 20 , 40 and 45 high-cube pallet-wide containers. Length oa: 205,0 m Breadth: 25,5 m Draught: 7,20 m / 8,40 m Deadweight: 12.800 / 18.250 tonnes Container capacity: abt. 640 TEU Lane metres: abt. 2.900 m Speed at draught 7,20 m: 22+ knots Output: 25.200 kW Ice class: 1A Super Delivery: 2006 / 2007 Contact: Transfennica Ltd Maj-Len Ehrnrooth Corporate Communication & PR Phone: +358 9 132 6401 E-mail: maj-len.ehrnrooth@transfennica.com 25/10/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Superfast Ferries pursues network optimisation In response to market demand and pursuing European network optimisation, Superfast Ferries announces that effective 10th November, 2005, its Germany-Finland routes will be operated with three Superfast ferries, Superfast VII, Superfast VIII and Superfast IX and two RoRo ships. As of 8th November, 2005, the Superfast Ferries Scotland-Belgium service in the North Sea, will be operated with Superfast X. Superfast Ferries maintains a leading position among ferry operators in the European ferry market with a strong presence in the Greece-Italy, Germany-Finland and Scotland-Belgium routes, with a modern fleet consisting of uniquely designed fast Ro-Pax ferries. More details on www.superfast.com 21/10/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article China Shipping (loading Antwerp) serves North Africa and East Med China Shipping Container Line (out of Antwerp) starts on August 16th with 2 new shortsea services, via a transhipment out of ports on the Europa Asia AEX2-loop. On a weekly basis following ports are served out of : Valencia : Casablanca, Alger, Tunis Port Sa d : Tripoli, Istanbul, Izir, Gemlik, Mersin, Piraeus, Beiroet, Lattakia, Haifa and Limassol. Using a slotcharter agreement presently Damietta and Malta are already served on a direct basis. Information tel : + 32 3 544 08 70 www.cseur.com 18/07/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Portlink on own power to Portugal Portlink, subsidiary of Maersk Sealand, steps out of the Joint Portugal Service and starts up its own service to Portugal with three vessels en two loops. Antwerp will be served by ms "Portlink Caravelle" en "Karin" (each 216teu) with following rotation : Rotterdam - Antwerp- Lisbon - Leixoes - Felixstowe - Teesport - Rotterdam - Antwerp. The vessels will be handled on Europaterminal (Hessenoordnatie). Information : tel + 32 3 244 49 50 www.portlink.be 18/07/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article NYK Expands North Europe Mediterranean Service NYK announced that its first container service from North Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean will commence on July 26th by joining the Hapag-Llyod s EEX service. This service will call Hamburg, Thamesport, Antwerp, Lisbon, Salerno, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Salerno, Lisbon and back to Hamburg, each voyage taking 28 days. It is planned to use four 1,200 TEU ships to cover this service. NYK will be supplying two vessels, with the other two being provided by Hapag-Lloyd on a slot sharing basis. NYK plans to bring the same standards of customer service to this new route that are so highly regarded by its customers on its major transcontinental operations. Further details of the service at: NYK Line (Benelux) - Antwerp Batavia Building, Amsterdamstraat 18, B-2000 Antwerp - T: +32-3-202-6100 F: +32-3-225-0999 15/07/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Grimaldi recently also to Cagliari Since the beginning of this month the shipowner Grimaldi has been starting a new service from Civitavecchia (Italy) to Cagliari (Sardinia). Thanks to their weekly service from Antwerp to Civitavecchia, they can offer Cagliari with a transit period of 11 days. The new line can load cars, roro units and static cargo on mafis. Grimaldi Belgium - Viviane Luymoeyen - Tel +32 3 545 88 45 - Fax +32 3 541 42 75 4/07/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Informal ESN meeting with Transport Committee of European Parliament On initiative of the Promotion Centre Holland and Shortsea Promotion Centre Belgium an informal meeting took place between the European Shortsea Network and the members of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament on June 14th, 2005. Despite the busy agenda, members of the Transport Committee from Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Greece present. Apart from Belgium and the Netherlands, ESN was represented by Ireland and Italy. The European Commission (DG Tren) was present as well. Sander van t Verlaat (SPC Holland) gave an overview about the working and the growth of the European Shortsea Network, with special attention for its mission, its website and its database for liner services ( www.shortsea.info ). Willy De Decker (SPC Belgium) presented a number of best practices , whereby the potential user could be persuaded of the crucial place of shortsea shipping in the intermodal transport chain. During the informal lunch a number of items were being clarified. The conversations thaught us that similar meetings are very interesting for both parties and that the initiative is worth repeating. For Belgium Dirk Sterckx (VLD) and Sa d El Khadroui (SP-A) took part. 30/06/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Delphis starts container service Antwerp-Bilbao As from Thursday June, 23rd Delphis introduces a new service from Antwerp to/from Bilbao. Delphis' own mv Conceiver (535 teu - Belgian flag) will be deployed on a weekly basis between Rotterdam, Bilbao and Antwerp. The loading berth in Antwerp will be P+O Ports 736. Delphis was founded in March 2004 and operates services to/from Portugal, Spain, France, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland. A mix of owned and chartered tonnage is used and its container fleet consists of 20', 40' and 45' palletwide/high cube containers. Information: Delphis - Mr Alexander Saverys - Tel: + 32 3 247 61 52 - E- mail: asaverys@delphis.be 21/06/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article OOCL Further Enhances its Scan Baltic Express (SBX) Services Beginning of May OOCL announced the revision of its schedule rotations to enhance its coverage of the fast expanding Scan Baltic region. OOCL will have two separate dedicated fixed-day weekly service schedules using a total of five modern ice-breaking vessels. The latest vessel, OOCL St Petersburg, will join the service in early June. SBX1 will have three 600-teu vessels, OOCL Narva, OOCL Nevskiy, and OOCL St Petersburg, operating on a 21 day round voyage. Call schedule: Rotterdam / Antwerp / Hamburg / Gdansk / St Petersburg / Gdansk / Hamburg / Rotterdam / St Petersburg / Rotterdam. SBX2 will have two vessels, OOCL Neva (600 TEU) and OOCL Novgorod (500 TEU), operating on a 14 day round voyage. Call schedule: Rotterdam / Grangemouth / Hull / Antwerp / Rotterdam / Klaipeda / Helsinki / Hamina / Rotterdam. Containers to/from Asia, Australia and North America can be relayed via Rotterdam and Antwerp to/from the SBX service. The enhancement to our schedules will further improve the service quality to our customers through improved schedule reliability and faster transit times between the key ports, said Ted Wang, Managing Director, OOCL (Europe). OOCL has had a dedicated SBX service for seven years. We are committed to maintaining our strong presence to help customers develop their businesses in the region. Indeed, the importance of the Russian market has been recognized by us naming our latest vessel OOCL St Petersburg. More information: OOCL (Benelux) N.V. www.oocl.com , +32(0) 3 -2 34.88.11 , e-mail: v a nessa . pa n is @oocl.com 10/06/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Lithuania introduces road tax for lorries De Lloyd of Thursdag June 2 reports: 'Lithuania introduces road tax for lorries Since May 31 Lithuania has introduced a road tax for inland and foreign trucks. This tax is valid on eighteen main roads in category A. With that, important traffic and transit routes are being covered. Based on total weight and period of validity the tax is calculated. For an annual vignette people pay a maximum of 550 euro.' More information about Lithuania can be found in our country special about the Baltic states. On our website you click on 'Publications' within the section 'General info'. 3/06/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article From now on Kursiu Linija via Zeebrugge On Tuesday May 24 the first containers were shipped with C2C Lines from Zeebrugge to Warren p oint . Th e 45ft containers w e re imported from Pol a n d a n d th e Baltic s tate s . On Mo nda y May 23 the first export containers from Ierland were unloaded at CdMC . These latters left to the Baltic states (final destination) on Tue sda y May 24. From now on, Kursiu Linija calls CdMC Swedish Quay (quay 705) every Monday evening/Tuesday morning. Here, the line has been linked to the ships of C2C Lines. Kursiu Linija recently chartered the Expansa, the first vessel to serve the Baltic/Europe routes with all high cube container capacity. In addition to the new vessel, Kursiu Linija has recently taken delivery of 100 new curtain side 45ft high cube boxes and 100 high cube pallet wide refrigerated containers, bringing its fleet of modern containers to over 3,000 units. Arijus Ramonas, managing director of Kursiu Linija, says, "Strong and growing demand from companies that see the advantages of using a dedicated short sea service over the difficulties of long haul road transportation is driving our expansion. " Lithuania-based Kursiu Linija is an intra-European carrier providing cost effective door-to-door transportation services between the Baltic States, Poland, the CIS and the UK and Northern Europe. Its fleet of five vessels serves Klaipeda, Riga, Kaliningrad, Gdansk, Teesport, Ipswich, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven. Via its co-operation with the Lithuanian carrier, ECS offers a door-to-door solution to its customers from UK/I re land/Continent to th e Baltic state s a n d Rus sia . M or e enquiries at: European Containers NV - Transportzone - Karveelstraat 3 - B 8380 Zeebrugge - www.ecs.be Anthony Verschuere - Tel: +32(0)50-55.93.50 - ecs@ecs.be 2/06/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article New feeder service at Zeebrugge APL, the global container shipping arm of the NOL Group, is introducing a new, dedicated feeder service connecting the Republic of Ireland with APL s extensive networks. The North Europe-Ireland Service (NIS) will link Dublin and Cork in Ireland with the mainline hub ports of Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. The service will commence on June 1 from Rotterdam. APL will deploy Achiever , a 510 TEU capacity vessel on a fixed-day weekly schedule. The NIS port rotation will be Rotterdam (Wednesday), Zeebrugge (Thursday), Cork (Saturday) and Dublin (Sunday). Henrik Knudsen, APL s general manager for the Republic of Ireland said: NIS is the first dedicated feeder service we have launched in Europe and reflects our confidence in and commitment to the Irish market . In addition to the new NIS link with Dublin and Cork, APL will continue to serve other ports in the Republic and Northern Ireland by third-party feeder services. More enquiries APL Website: www.apl.com Michael Haig, ISIS Communications Tel: +44 1737 248300 from outside UK / 0845 130 1160 from within UK E-mail: info@isiscomms.com 30/05/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article SSS Fact Sheet Containers online available Shortsea Promotion Centre Belgium publishes a Fact Sheet of containers . This Fact Sheet gives you an overview of the specifications of various types of containers present in the market of shortsea shipping. Not only do you read measures of the containers, but you also get to know the capacity and the maximum number of pallets that a specific container is able to handle. The Fact Sheet can be found on www.shortsea.be in section: Publications. 30/05/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Oostende steps into European Network (ENA). On the 13th April 2005 the official Eurocoast Network Association (ENA) was established in Paris. ENA is a collaboration between five partners in five different countries: Cuxport, Oostende, Cherbourg, Rosslare and the Spanish company Perez-Torres which has strong ties with the Gallic port of Ferrol. The main purpose of this association is to set up a Motorways of the Sea -project. The term Motorways of the Sea has been invented by the European Union and is mainly intended to get as many traffic of the road as possible in favour of the ship. The project specifically aims at floating a coastal route which connects the ports of Cuxhaven, Oostende, Cherbourg and Ferrol. This new coastal route constitutes the backbone of this network by which the whole of Western Europe is covered, from the Baltic region over the North Sea to the Iberian Peninsula: - Scandinavia and the Baltic region are served from Cuxhaven - Central and Southern Germany and Eastern England are served from Oostende - Cherbourg has connections with Ireland and Southern England - Western Spain and Portugal are served from Ferrol The coastal route will be served by Ro-Ro ships by which trustworthiness, regularity and high frequency will be the central point of attention. There are already contacts with interested operators. This project has also drawn the attention of several transhipment companies, logistics groups and hauliers; The whole project should be ready before July 2005, so that the necessary documents can be presented to Europe. Hopefully, the necessary support for this project can be obtained in that way. More info at: AG Have n Oostende - E-mail: info@portofoostende.be - Website: www.portofoostende.be 20/05/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article New enhanced port coverage with European Express Service (EEX) As from April 23rd 2005, Hapag-Lloyd Container Line will operate the existing EEX service independently until further notice on a fixed day fortnightly basis and will return to a weekly service in the course of the 2nd half 2005 linking the North European Continent and the Mediterranean. Simultaneously the service scope will be expanded by incorporating Gioia Tauro instead of Taranto into the southbound schedule and by linking Salerno and Lisbon to the North Continent. The employed two container-vessels will perform the enhanced rotation as from week 16/2005 as follows: Hamburg, Thamesport, Antwerp, Lisbon, Gioia Tauro, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Salerno, Lisbon, Hamburg. Hapag-Lloyd Belgium - Kattendijkdok Westkaai 21 - B 2000 Antwerpen - Tel 03-545.06.11 - Fax 03-541.28.50 - Website: www.hlcl.com 25/04/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Weekly container sailings to Saint-Petersburg. In Newsletter 15 we already mentioned the launch of a new container service to Saint-Petersburg. Under the name NWS, the first ship was loaded on November 30, 2004, at quay 340 in Antwerp: the MV Leonid Leonov has a capacity of 128 TEU, which makes 20 reefer connections possible. The departures will take place every week and commence their journey at quay 913. The transit time from Antwerp to Saint-Petersburg is still 5.5 days. The shipowner plans the replacement of the current fleet (with a capacity of 128 TEU) by 2 ships of each 250 TEU. More information can be obtained from: De Keyser Thornton - Oude Leeuwenrui 25 B-2000 Antwerp - www.dkt.be Contact: Bob De Mey - Brigitte Eeckels - Luc Arras tel. +32-3-205 31 00 - fax +32-3-234 27 86 info@multimodal.be 11/04/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article New Ro-Ro connection to Immingham. Being connected to Ipswich and Killingholme, the shipping company Ferryways now has a new connection to Immingham. Immingham is situated alongside the Humber river in Northern England, just like Killingholme that is situated approximately 10 km further. Ferryways has started with nine departures a week. For the time being, the Ipswich Way has been removed from the connection to Ipswich in order to be introduced into the new route. Looking forward to put a new vessel in use, approximately 160m in length, the number of departures will therefore be reduced from 4 to 3 a day. Ferryways has been searching to increase its capacity towards Northern England. Since demand has exceeded the offer for some time now, i.e. one slot (during the night). Immingham was able to fulfil this now. Therefore, the shipping company did not hesitate to add a new destination to its offer, The Oostende shipping company now offers 21 departures a week to Ipswich and 6 departures a week for the connection Ostend-Killingholme. This amounts to 36 departures a week to England, including the nine additional departures on Immingham. In general, unaccompanied trailers are transported. Since the shipping company was established, 5 years ago, with an initial shedule of two departures a day to Ipswich, the shipping company has been in full expansion as a result of the easy accessibility, flexibility and efficiency that is related to the harbours concerned that provide brand-new infrastructure. The Port of Oostende and its shipping company will endeavour to maintain the above service. More info: www.portofoostende.be 16/02/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Nieuwpoortse Handelsmaatschappij obtains concession of former marine zone. It has been agreed for some time now that the Nieuwpoortse Handelsmaatschappij (NHM) will establish a sand and gravel terminal on the areal next to quay 608 and 609. Nevertheless, some infrastructure works still had to be done in order to realise this project. At first, two berths were built in order to allow sand and gravel ships as well as inland ships. Next, the demolition works of the buildings that belong to the Ministry of Defence were started. At the same time, the Region of Flanders (Vlaams Gewest) commenced the expropriation procedure to acquire this areal from the Ministry of Defence. But there was a snag, though, that was overlooked and because of which the project could have become a long term project: soil pollution. Fortunately, this could be solved through a quickened redevelopment. In this way, the Nieuwpoortse Handelsmaatschappij is able to built its installations. We expect the site to be ready for use by September. At this site, the NHM will concentrate its activities which are currently partly executed in Nieuwpoort and in Oostende. The company expects to reach an average annual throughput of 300,000 tonnes. In addition, the firm intends to distribute its products in a multi modal way, depending on the economic situation. Road transport and inland navigation are certainties, but transport by rail, that will be constructed just around the corner, is thought to be an effective means of transport in the future. More info: www.portofoostende.be 15/02/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article 2004: Traffic Shortsea Shipping exceeds 107 million tonnes. As usual, the Shortsea Promotion Centre Flanders has made a balance of the shortsea traffic in the four Flemish ports and on the canals (sea-river tansport). Shortsea Shipping contributes to restrict the inconvenience on our roads. A coaster that sails out from a Flemish port to the Baltic States or Copenhagen, results in an important modal shift of many lorries from road to water. In combination to inland waterways, all major industrial centres within Europe are to be reached via Shortsea Shipping. Since the public works of the Ring around Antwerp, many shippers have been evaluating their transport chain and have decided to permanently appeal to the waterways. The tendency of 2003 (an increase of almost 5 million tonnes in regards to 2002) has been prolonged in 2004. The four Flemish seaports remain the key players of Shortsea in our country. In 2004, more than 107 million tonnes of goods have been received and shipped via Shortsea Shipping (107,415,034 tonnes to be precise). This is almost 5 million tonnes more than in 2003, i.e. an increase of 4 percent. In respect of 1999, the rise amounts to 18.9 million tonnes or 21 percent. The importance of the four Flemish seaports within the development of Shortsea Shipping cannot be overestimated. In our ports SSS makes up for almost 50 percent of the total transhipment. In 2004, the four flemish seaports treated 216.6 million tonnes from which 107.4 million tonnes have been generated by Shortsea Shipping. In 2004, the strongest growth of SSS was noted in Antwerp, i.e. an increase of 5 percent. In Ostend, SSS rised with 4.6 percent and in Ghent a growth of 4.3 percent was calculated. In 2003, SSS lost ground in Zeebrugge. This is due to shifts to Vlissingen and the discontinuation of the P&O-service between Zeebrugge and Dover. In 2004, the traffic of SSS revitalised and noted a rise of 2.2 percent. The relative importance of SSS differs between seaports. In Ostend, the importance is highest (99.7 percent of all traffic is SSS) and in Bruges-Zeebrugge (77.1 percent). In Ghent, 41.21 percent of all port traffic is Shortsea Shipping, in Antwerp 42.74 percent. The number of sea/river ships on our major canals continues to decrease. Last year, 362 sea ships were counted on the Albert canal. On the Sea canal Brussel-Scheldt were 581 ships. On the Albert canal the SSS-tonnage reached 532,165 tonnes (a decrease of 35,000 tonnes). On the Sea canal 907,101 tonnes (an increase of 36,000 tonnes). An unfavourable cost-benefit analysis and structural bottlenecks, among others especially the free headroom under some bridges, remain handicaps. From this spectaculare rise, Shortsea Promotion Centre Belgium concludes that there is talk of a structural increase and of the fact that more shippers continue to choose durable tranports. 14/02/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article More bricks with sea/river coaster to the UK. Thursday 27/1 a coaster was reloaded with pallets full of bricks in Lanaken (Albert canal) with destination Shoreham (UK): 3300 pallets (total weight: 1445 tonnes) were placed on board. The modal shift of appr. 60 lorries from road to water is already the third shipment. 2005, a minimum of 8 shipments are planned to Shoreham. Launching additional ships to a port located more up north in the UK, is an option that is still being studied. 28/01/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article New service to Esbjerg. The shipowner Cobelfret started a new liner service between Zeebrugge and Esbjerg on Friday 7 January 2005. It's a regular service that connects Flanders with Denmark within 1 day. The ship leaves the quai in Zeebrugge every Friday afternoon and berths at the Danish coastal port on Saturday evening. Subsequently, the ship transports return freight to Zeebrugge on Mondays. Mainly containers, trailers and project cargo are being shipped. According to the Danish port of Esbjerg, the Danish hauliers see Zeebrugge as an ideal springboard to the Belgian, French and South-Dutch market. More information regarding this new service can be found at: Cobelfret NV Martin Storme +32(0)50-50.22.02 martin.storme@cobelfret.com 18/01/2005 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Conventional cargo to Iskenderun (Turkey). January, 2005, conventional cargo can also be shipped with Newman Shipping to Iskenderun in Turkey. The Tunisian shipowner Global Rina Shipping, who was searching for a Belgian agent for its service Iskenderun-Antwerpen last month, has found a partner. Newman Shipping has just been appointed as general agent. The first sailing of this new service has been planned end of January, 2005. 2 sailings a month has been principially planned. And only for conventional cargo for the time being. Rotation of the ships: Antwerp/Tunis (or other Tunisian ports 'sub inducement') / Iskenderun (or other Turkish port) / Antwerp More information on the liner agent can be found at: Newman Shipping - Stijfselrui 44 B17 - B-2000 Antwerp - www.newman.be Contact: Erik Valkenborghs - Tel: +32(0)3-222.15.11 Website shipowner: www.globalshipping.com.tn 21/12/2004 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article More container & reefer services from/to the Baltic States and UK. The Scan Baltic Express (SBX) services of OOCL are being strengthened with the addition of a fifth vessel to ensure schedule integrity is maintained during the harsh winter months in the Gulf of Finland. Effective mid December there will be three SBX loops. SBX 1 will call Rotterdam - Antwerp -Hamburg - Gdansk - St Petersburg - Hamina - Helsinki - Hamburg - Rotterdam. 14 day round voyage time with two ice-class vessels - OOCL Neva and OOCL Nevskiy (600 TEU loadable) SBX 2 will call Rotterdam - Antwerp - Klaipeda - Helsinki - Hamina - St Petersburg - Tallinn (Muuga) - Rotterdam. 14 day round voyage time with two ice-class vessels - OOCL Narva (600 TEU loadable) and OOCL Novgorod (500 TEU loadable) SBX 3 will call Rotterdam - Hull - Grangemouth - Antwerp - Rotterdam. 7 day round voyage time with one vessel - Reggeborg (415 TEU loadable). OOCL offers weekly FCL and reefer services. For more info, please contact: OOCL Itali lei 124 B74 - B-2000 Antwerpen Louisette Van de Wauwer Marketing Co-ordinator Tel: +32(0)3-234.88.11 16/12/2004 back to overview news newsarchive article News News archive article Bricks with SSS-sea/river coaster to the UK. In 2004 the company Heylen-Bricks (Lanaken (Veldwezelt)) linked to the transport of facing bricks on pallets via waterways. February 1999, a first transport of appr. 1000 tonnes, had been loaded onto a ms Eldor and directly sailed from the loading place along the Albert canal to Mistley (100 km North East of London). Despite the good experience and due to costefficient reasons, Heylen-Bricks switched back to road transport afterwards. Shortsea Promotion Centre Belgium kept contact with Heylen-Bricks and delivered so complete as possible a contact list (shipowners/brokers). At the beginning of 2004, Heylen-Bricks, in dialogue with the recipient in the UK, re-calculated the costs. The total costs appeared to be cheaper than road transport. April 2004, a first sea/river coaster was loaded with 1300 tonnes pallets of facing bricks in Lanaken with destination: Shoreham (UK). After a first smooth operation, a second coaster was loaded with 1500 tonnes on board to Shoreham at the beginning September 2004. This last action resulted in a modal shift from road to waterway and sea of about 60 lo