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newsletter I shortsea promotion centre belgium I nr. 31 I December 2008
10 YEARS SSS
LOOKING BACK ON A SUCCESSFUL JUBILEE YEAR
At the beginning of this jubilee year we announced quite a number
of events to mark this festive year. In retrospect, we think we can
certainly speak of a successful 10-year anniversary.
A
BRIEF RUNDOWN:
New house style kicks off jubilee
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 this jubilee
was marked by the launch of our website
with a new corporate identity and by a
press conference at which the starting
signal was given for a number of activities we organised this year.
New look – restyled website – new campaign image
Our website, e-news, printed newsletter Aboard! and other means of
communication have been revamped. The medium that undoubtedly has
undergone the most thorough facelift is our website. Not only its look has
been totally renovated, also its structure has been revised thoroughly to
give our visitors easier access to the information. With the search function you are able to search the entire website and in the archive in the
news section you can reread all the articles that have been published in
the past. Another novelty is the possibility to look up shippers, shipping
agents and forwarders under the heading commercial players. Also,
all publications are better structured and have been updated and freshened up. The links too have been thoroughly checked and updated.
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10 YEARS SSS
• Looking back on a successful
jubilee year ................................................... 1
COMPANIES ON THE RADAR
• Van Hool ships its buses using shortsea ...4
• Mazda opts in favour of ICO Zeebrugge ....4
POLICY
• German “Maut” increases on
1 January 2009 .................................4
• Marpol Annex VI approved ..........4
PORT NEWS
• Shortsea industry opts
for 45-footers .................................5
• Normed now also sails
to Alexandria ................................5
European Shortsea Network
• Containerships starts container service
to Ghent .......................................................5
• New container service
between Antwerp and Kokkola .................. 6
• CMA CGM starts feeder service
to Sweden ................................................... 6
• Change of capacity on two P&O Ferries
links............................................................. 6
• UASC modifies its AEC service .................. 6
• Turkon Line increases the capacity on its
service between Northern Europe and
the Mediterranean ...................................... 6
• Hapag-Lloyd sold after months of
negotiations .................................................7
• OPDR makes direct link between
Antwerp and Vigo ........................................7
• Cobelfret expands ........................................7
• Bridgestone expands logistics centre
in the port of Zeebrugge .............................8
• Fast Lines extends its fleet ..........................8
• Contaz Line relaunches container service ..8
• MSC serves Dublin via alternative route ....8
• Van Uden Atlas Container Service
continues under a new name..................... 9
• Shipit secures a concession in
Waasland harbour ...................................... 9
• Stora Enso moves 700,000 tonne
from Antwerp to Zeebrugge....................... 9
• DFDS reduces capacity on EuroBridge
service and expands capacity on
North Sea...................................................10
• Norfolk will reactivate Zeebrugge-Rosyth
in April .......................................................10
• Finnlines takes on board Ghent sloop .....10
• Growing added value in Belgian ports .....11
• Heavy freight chooses Transfennica ..........11
QUOTE........................................................ 12
CROSS-BORDER ................................. 12
SYNERGIE WITH INLAND
NAVIGATION........................................ 12
SHORTSEA INNOVATIONS ..... 12
10 YEARS SSS
You can also watch a film about shortsea
and the youngsters' section offers the next
generation a wide selection of links.
Inflow and training – Flemish logistics
students discover shortsea at sea
To improve the influx and the level of training, we invited the Logistics colleges and
their students to participate in the shortsea
and maritime logistics course which the
Escola Europea de Short Sea Shipping
(2E3S, in short) organises on board a ropax
that commutes between Barcelona and
Civitavecchia or Genoa.
Since the end of this summer we also
launched a new campaign image.
www.shortsea.be
Shortsea beats road transport in race
In May and July we organised three races
between a ship and a truck. The three doorto-door routes, to Ireland, Sweden and Turkey, were each time carried out by road and
by shortsea shipping. In the end SSS not
only proved to be clearly cheaper, it also
scored points in the field of transit time,
return freight and tracking & tracing. SSS
also puts up a good performance as far as
CO2 emissions are concerned. As expected, it does less well with regard to SO2, NOX
and fine dust. Still, all things considered, we
can safely say that in the end the race was
won by shortsea. You can find the report on
our website: www.shortsea.be -> publications -> reports and studies -> promotion
centre.
SME workshop and presentation
of the first Shortsea Shipping Award
On Monday 27 October 2008 the workshop
”The SME and its export/import in the
shortsea area” took place in AntwerpExpo.
It was the third event marking the 10th anniversary of the Shortsea Shipping Promotion
Centre Flanders. The 80 participants in the
workshop also witnessed the presentation
of the very first Shortsea Awards. All in all
four awards were presented. The “Personal
Ambassador of Shortsea Shipping” award
was conferred on Alfons Guinier, the secretary-general of ECSA. First laureate and
winner of the Shortsea Shipping Award
2008 was the chemical company Prayon.
Prayon, located on the Zeekanaal, received
the award for its efforts to optimise its transport chain using shortsea shipping. A year
ago the company decided to ship an annual
30,000 tonnes of liquid phosphoric acid by
shortsea to Immingham instead of by road.
Second and third laureate were the transport group Corneel Geerts and DFDS Tor
Line. The three winners came out of a shortlist of five nominees: P&O Ferrymasters
and BG Freight Line narrowly missed the
boat. In addition to their awards Alfons
Guinier and Prayon also received a work of
art by the painter Katie Nelissen. The presentations that were given during the workshop can be found online.
www.shortsea.be -> publications -> presentations
Large attendance at VOKA
info sessions
In Flanders some 90 percent of all companies are situated at less than 15 km from
any waterway. Yet, businesses are still
rather unfamiliar with the possibilities of
inland navigation and shortsea. To rectify
that, Promotie Binnenvaart Vlaanderen –
the Flemish inland navigation promotion
centre –, together with Voka, the association of Chambers of Commerce, last autumn
organised a number of information sessions
in as many regions. Each time the Shortsea
Shipping Promotion Centre had the opportunity to present SSS.
In April 2008 a first delegation of 7 Flemish
students participated in the 2E3S-project.
In the autumn 5 colleges followed suit and
in September and October 93 students
attended the course on board of one of the
Grimaldi ships, where they were given a
series of presentations on shortsea shipping, took part in workshops, visited the
engine room, the cargo hold and the bridge.
In Barcelona and Civitavecchia they toured
the ports and in Rome they made a flying
visit to the ancient city. The students were
also presented with a case study, which
they had to solve in small groups by the end
of the four-day course. The aim of that exercise was to find the most effective means of
transport between two locations.
After the introduction, particularly a number
of practical examples were presented. Voka
Halle-Vilvoorde, Limburg, Kempen, West
Flanders and Antwerp-Waasland already
had their session, each time with a lot of
success. All in all some 300 people participated. In the spring of 2009 an additional
Voka information session will take place in
East Flanders also.
Additional information can be obtained
from Promotie Binnenvaart Vlaanderen,
Christa Kellens – 011 23 06 02 –
[email protected]
Meanwhile a large number of students –
particularly from Belgium, the Netherlands,
Spain, Portugal and France – have pocketed their SSS certificate. The subsidies for
this project have now expired, but 2E3S
has introduced a new project, emphasising
intermodality, with the European Commission. Approval in principle for that similar
project – this time part railway, part ropax –
has already been obtained and it could kick
off in the first part of 2009.
10 YEARS SSS
… I most certainly will remember that
the costs are indeed very low with
SSS, compared to road transport.
(Yannick De Ruymaeker – Catholic
College of Advanced Education
Mechelen)
… It has been a very instructive experience in an attractive environment.
With SSS our future is secured; we
had the opportunity to get to know
SSS and to apply it in our branch of
industry.
(Kirby Van den Bosch – Catholic
College of Advanced Education
Mechelen)
… Even if people didn’t know very
much about SSS at the outset, everybody certainly returned with a very
wide knowledge about the subject.
As every presentation was given in
English, it also gave us a chance to
pick up the English terms used in
the profession. I take my hat off to
the wonderful job the speakers did
of enlightening us.
(Dieter Vandewalle – College of
Advanced Education Ghent)
days was a wonderful opportunity to
see what life on board is all about.
Visiting the port of Barcelona, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea in
a fully equipped ship, looking around
in the port of Civitavecchia, listening
to the comments from interesting
and experienced professionals, participating in a real case, etc., made
us discover some exciting aspects of
the world of transports and logistics.
All these things helped us to
empower our theoretical knowledge
with practical know-how.
(College of Advanced Education
Ghent).
You can take a look at the pictures of
the 27-30 September course on the
website of Hogeschool Gent:
http://bmer.hogent.be/#nieuws
… We all agree that being part of the
Short Sea Shipping project for four
To round off the jubilee year in a nice way, we wish each and everyone of you a fantastic 2009!
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COMPANIES ON THE RADAR
MAZDA OPTS IN FAVOUR
OF ICO ZEEBRUGGE
VAN HOOL SHIPS ITS
BUSES USING SHORTSEA
The Koningshooikt-based bus manufacturer is shipping 99 buses from Antwerp to
Algeria. Apart from that particular shortsea
traffic Van Hool also makes regular use of
maritime transport to ship trailers and bus-
es to the United Kingdom. The trailers leave
from Zeebrugge, the buses from Ostend. In
addition, there is also a shortsea transport
of mainly trailers to Norway from Amsterdam and of buses to the Canary Islands via
Flushing.
From April 2009 onward the Japanese car
manufacturer Mazda will switch its annual
126,000 car traffic to Ireland and the UK
from Rotterdam to Zeebrugge. Cobelfret
Ferries will serve the UK and UECC the
Irish market. With this contract Zeebrugge
strengthens its anchorage as a distribution
hub for new cars in Europe even more.
Once the Mazda cars have been transported from Japan to Zeebrugge, they will be
subject to a number of adjustments in the
car handling centres at the ICO terminal
before they are shipped to Great Britain and
Ireland. That activity will create some 80
jobs at ICO’s.
www.icoterminals.com
www.vanhool.be
POLICY
GERMAN “MAUT”
INCREASES ON
1 JANUARY
An increase of the German “Maut”, or kilometre tax for lorry traffic, obtained a narrow
majority in the German Upper House. The
substantial tariff hike will take effect from
1 January 2009.
Depending on the Euro-class of the lorry,
the increase will amount to 50 % on average. The costs for Euro-3 lorries, which
constitute half of the commercial traffic on
the German roads, will rise by 9,400 euros
per 100,000 kilometres covered. The
increase has already drawn sharp criticism,
both on the home front and from abroad.
MARPOL ANNEX VI
APPROVED
At the 58th meeting of the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) of
the International Maritime Organisation
(IMO) the member countries have decided
to approve the changes to Annex VI of the
MARPOL convention which had been submitted earlier in the year. In doing so, they
unanimously opted for a tightening of the
worldwide convention regarding emissions
from shipping.
The convention stipulates that the sulphur
content in shipping fuel has to go down from
4,5 % to 3,5 % by 2012 and to 0,5 % by
2020. In the Sulphur Emission Control
Areas, SECAs in short, the sulphur content
has to drop from 1,5 % to 1 % as from
1 July 2010 and to 0,10 % starting January
2015. As far as the emissions of nitrogen
oxides (NOX) an agreement has been
reached for the installation of Tier III
engines, which as from 1 January 2016 will
be installed in ships sailing in the emission
control areas. On the other hand, a
co-ordinated international strategy to combat CO2 emissions from shipping remains in
the pipeline for the time being.
PORT NEWS
SHORTSEA INDUSTRY
OPTS FOR 45-FOOTERS
From now on the Danish shortsea operator
Unifeeder will be using also 45’ pallet-wide
containers for its continental door-to-door
traffic to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. In such extra-long containers 33 Europallets can be conveyed,
just as many as in a trailer. Initially 500 units
have been leased and by the end of the
year an equal number will be added. The
shipper has started to extend his shipping
capacity too, in an effort to further his image
as an intermodal carrier.
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics is
currently testing collapsible 45’ flat containers. By opting for a folding unit these containers, when empty, can easily be repositioned and stored, which yields an economical advantage. The difference with the original flats resides in the fact that they only
have a cornerpost at position 45’. Two prototypes are being tested. In the first one the
end section is folded onto the bottom, in the
second one to the roof.
Agent for Unifeeder: Unamar
+ 32 3 303 48 75
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.unifeeder.com
Agent for Samskip: Samskip
+ 32 3 231 49 25
www.samskip.com
NORMED NOW ALSO
SAILS TO ALEXANDRIA
The Turkish shipping company Normed has
recently launched a conventional service
between Antwerp and Alexandria, Egypt.
The transit time amounts to 11 to 12 days.
Next to that destination the Normedline also
offers sailings to Turkey. Other ports in the
East-Med region are served sub inducement. The shipping agent for the service is
Durot Shipping.
+ 32 3 202 02 10
[email protected]
www.normedline.com
days. From March onward the frequency
will be increased to two departures per
week. In a third phase, by the middle of
2009, three sailings per week will be organised.
Ghent Container Terminal is situated at the
Kluizendok, where it occupies a 7 hectare
concession, with the possibility of future
expansion. Recently the Ghent Port Authority has granted two other concessions at the
Kluizendok, both to industrial groups.
Manuport
+ 32 3 201 66 61
[email protected]
CONTAINERSHIPS STARTS
CONTAINER SERVICE TO
GHENT
On Saturday 8 November 2008 the 966 teu
‘Containerships VI” of the Finnish-Icelandic
shipping company Containerships OY, was
the very first ship to call at the new facilities
in the Ghent Container Terminal. It signalled
the start of a new weekly container service
between Ghent, Klaipeda, Helsinki and St.Petersburg. It also marked Ghent Container
Terminal’s official launching of the 50-50
joint venture between Manuport and Container Finance. In a first stage the Finnish
partner provides a weekly sailing on Satur-
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PORT NEWS
NEW CONTAINER
SERVICE BETWEEN
ANTWERP AND
KOKKOLA
Merilinja Oy, a Finnish shipping company
founded in 2007, has started a new regular
container line between Kokkola (Finland)
and Antwerp. The MS Baltic Sea, a
2005-built 366 teu 1A Finnish ice-class container ship, took the first northbound containers on board at quay 730 in the port of
Antwerp on 5 November 2008. The round
feeder services. The service between Zeebrugge and Sweden will be CMA CGM’s
third feeder service from the Belgian coastal port. The other two services are Zeebrugge-Immingham-Teesport and Zeebrugge-Saint-Petersburg.
+ 32 3 202 36 15
[email protected]
www.cma-cgm.com
CHANGE OF CAPACITY
ON TWO P&O FERRIES
LINKS
The ferry company P&O Ferries is increasing the capacity on its freight services
between Zeebrugge and Tilbury by 150 cargo units per day. The “Hoburgen”, which
has a capacity of 850 lane metres, will be
replaced by the “Norking”, which has a
capacity of 1,800 linear metres. The “Norcape” will remain in service.
trip takes 10 days, with three regular departures per month at both ends. The service
accepts all types of 20’, 30’, 40’ and 45’
containers, as well as IMCO containers.
+ 32 3 213 52 72
[email protected]
www.sdsbo.com
FEEDER SERVICE TO
SWEDEN
Since 20 November 2008 the French shipping group CMA CGM organises its own
feeder service between Zeebrugge and the
Swedish ports of Helsingborg and Göteborg. The service will be provided in both
directions on a weekly basis by an 800 teu
container ship. On the one hand the shipping company will mobilise one of its own
container ships on the new service, but it
will also lease space on board of feeder
vessels of other players. The launching of
this feeder service follows the restructuring
of the company’s deep-sea services, on
which more capacity will be deployed, thus
creating an increased need for hubs and
+ 32 3 221 81 00
[email protected]
www.uasc.net
TURKON LINE INCREASES
THE CAPACITY ON ITS
SERVICE BETWEEN
NORTHERN EUROPE AND
THE MEDITERRANEAN
Agent for the service is Herfurth & Co.
CMA CGM STARTS
The shortsea part will be as follows:
Rotterdam – Thamesport – Hamburg –
Antwerp – Malta.
Between Zeebrugge and Hull, on the other
hand, P&O Ferries scraps its two additional
cargo departures. In doing so, the operator
responds to the current market situation.
However, if that changes, the extra sailings
will be resumed. At this time the shipper
provides daily departures with two ropax
vessels.
+ 32 50 54 22 93
[email protected]
www.poferriesfreight.com
UASC MODIFIES ITS
AEC SERVICE
UASC is going to adapt its Europe-Middle
East-Far East service. The service will still
operate 10 3,800 teu container ships.
The Turkish shipping company Turkon is
going to increase the capacity on its service
between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean by deploying four vessels with a
capacity of 1,900 teu instead of 1,150 teu.
The service will cover the following schedule on a weekly basis: Antwerp, Barcelona,
Marseille, Genoa, Istanbul, Marseille, Barcelona, Felixstowe and back to Hamburg.
Additionally, Turkon Line operates a southbound direct link to Valencia since June;
since November also northbound.
Recently Turkon Line initiated a weekly
departure to Mersin, Turkey, and Alexandria, Egypt, both with transhipment via
Istanbul. This service is operated with the
company’s own feeder service.
+ 32 3 201 49 20
[email protected]
www.turkon.com
PORT NEWS
HAPAG-LLOYD
SOLD AFTER MONTHS
OF NEGOTIATIONS
On Sunday 12 October 2008, after several
months of negotiations, TUI opened the
door for the sale of its daughter company
Hapag-Lloyd to a subsidiary of the Albert
Ballin consortium. The German investors
are buying HL for 4.45 billion euros or, net
of the debts that are being taken over, for
an amount of 2 billion euros. Also, the citystate of Hamburg will become one of the
main reference shareholders. An offer for
the German container group made earlier
by NOL was waved aside by TUI.
In exchange TUI will take a 33.3 % share in
Albert Ballin in order to avoid the risk that its
shareholders would oppose the agreement.
Meanwhile Hapag-Lloyd has secured the
necessary funds to buy the 29 container
ships, with a slot capacity of 120,000 teu,
from TUI.
www.hapag-lloyd.com
Leixoes and La Coruña. The MVs “OPDR
Tanger” and “OPDR Lisboa”, both fitted out
to carry any type of container, are deployed
on this service.
van Doosselaere & Achten BVBA
Daniëlla Pauwels
+ 32 3 220 05 65
[email protected]
www.portofantwerp.com/vda
COBELFRET EXPANDS
COBELFRET ORDERS RO-RO
SHIPS FOR IPSWICH SERVICE
The Belgian shipping company Cobelfret
has ordered four ro-ro vessels for the shuttle services of its Ostend-based daughter
company Dart Line. Delivery is planned for
2011 and 2012. The ships will each have a
dwt of 6,600 and will provide 2,000 lane
metres. Those relatively small vessels will
have the maximum dimension to still be
able to call at Ipswich.
COBELFRET OFFERS
TO ROSSLARE
RO-RO LINK
ro-ro freight service from Zeebrugge and
Rotterdam to Rosslare. In doing so, the
shipper wishes to offer the opportunity of a
direct link with Ireland. Many logistics players approach the Irish market opting for
transport by ferry to the east coast of England and then continue across land to take
the ferry to Ireland on the west coast. With
this new ro-ro service Cobelfret wishes to
offer an interesting and efficient alternative,
thus creating a modal shift from road haulage to shortsea shipping. The service offers
the possibility to ship non-accompanied
trailers as well as some driver-accompanied lorries, as there is room for 12 lorry
drivers. In addition, containers on mafis and
cars can also be loaded. The vessel has a
capacity of 150 trailers. From Zeebrugge
the ship sails each Friday at 4 a.m. to Rotterdam where she arrives at 10 p.m. the
same day. Subsequently she continues to
Rosslare, where she arrives at 10 a.m. on
Sunday. The ship returns the same day,
calling at Rotterdam on Tuesday at 7 a.m.
+ 32 50 54 53 12
[email protected]
www.cobelfret.com
Since 17 October 2008 the Belgian
shipping company Cobelfret operates a
OPDR MAKES
DIRECT LINK BETWEEN
ANTWERP AND VIGO
OPDR has started a new weekly direct service between Northern Europe and Vigo,
Spain. The first departure took place from
Rotterdam on 27 November 2008. One day
later the vessel called at Antwerp and three
days later it arrived in Vigo. The rotation
then continued, as before, via Lisbon,
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PORT NEWS
BRIDGESTONE
EXPANDS LOGISTICS
CENTRE IN THE PORT
OF ZEEBRUGGE
The Japanese tyre manufacturer is going to
invest 14 million euros in the expansion of
his logistics centre in the port of Zeebrugge.
The 40,000 m2 extension of the largest
European distribution centre will take place
in two stages.
First, two additional warehouses will be
built, the construction of which ought to be
completed within a year. In the second
stage Bridgestone will invest half of the total
amount of the investment in a 20,000 m2
logistics facility on a 3.8 ha site.
Fast Lines
+ 32 3 213 52 78
[email protected]
www.fast-lines.com
CONTAZ LINE
RELAUNCHES
CONTAINER SERVICE
After the recent sale of two of its vessels
Contaz Line will now resume its service
between Northern Europe and the eastern
Mediterranean with chartered tonnage. Initially the service will be provided every fortnight, later it will be extended to departures
every ten days. The MV “Gerd”, with a
capacity of about 750 teu, has already been
Bridgestone Zeebrugge serves the markets
of the Benelux, Germany, France, the UK,
Ireland and Scandinavia. In the long run
40 additional jobs will be created.
www.bridgestone.eu
www.portofzeebrugge.be
FAST LINES
EXTENDS ITS FLEET
Fast Lines Belgium has further extended its
fleet with its eighth vessel, the “Fast Julia”.
The 2,300 dwt ship was built in 1985 and
will sail under Belgian colours. Fast Lines
operates fixed shortsea links to Poland, the
UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
chartered by the Turkish shipper. Talks to
further increase the capacity are ongoing.
Meanwhile, the usual rotation is maintained:
Felixstowe, Teesport, Rotterdam, Antwerp,
Salerno, Piraeus, Volos, Istanbul, Izmir and
Salerno.
+ 32 3 543 72 11
[email protected]
www.ahlers.com
MSC SERVES DUBLIN
VIA ALTERNATIVE ROUTE
MSC is taking Dublin out of the sailing
schedule of the Accordion Service. The Irish
capital will from now on be called at by the
PORT NEWS
1,181 teu MSC Venice, which will shuttle
between Antwerp and Dublin on a weekly
basis. At the same time Accordion Service
will be renamed Portugal Service. Three
units of between 1,060 and 1,300 teu will
sail between Antwerp, Vigo, Leixoes, Sines,
Cadiz and Valencia. The Portuguese cargo
will be feedered both via Antwerp and
Valencia.
Source: Nieuwsblad Transport - 01/10/08
+ 32 3 543 22 00
www.mscgva.ch
VAN UDEN ATLAS
CONTAINER SERVICE
CONTINUES UNDER
A NEW NAME
After the take-over of Comanav (CMA
CGM), Atlas has withdrawn from the Van
Uden Atlas Container Service (VACS). Atlas
was the Moroccan partner of Van Uden
Maritime in that service. The latter has now
taken over the VACS service entirely. Since
1 October 2008 the service continues under
the name Van Uden Maghreb Service
(VUMS). Otherwise nothing has changed to
the weekly service which links Rotterdam,
Antwerp, Dunkirk, Le Havre and Rouen with
Casablanca. Meanwhile, the network of
agents and forwarders who were active for
VACS remain in place.
container transhipments and the scarce
warehouse capacity on the left bank.
Together with the trimodal opening up, the
location of the new concession is, therefore,
an important asset.
The Belgian company will invest approximately 26 million euros.
+ 32 3 232 35 58
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.shipit.be
www.van-uden.nl
SHIPIT SECURES
A CONCESSION IN
WAASLAND HARBOUR
The multimodal transport organiser Shipit
has obtained an 8 ha greenfield concession
in the Northern Dock of the Waasland harbour. Shipit wishes to develop a trimodal
logistics centre there and eventually plans
48,000 sqm of warehouses. Connections
with rail, inland waterways and road will be
provided. According to Shipit’s Jan Goderis
the majority of the warehouses are currently located on the Scheldt’s right bank, which
creates an imbalance with the growth of the
STORA ENSO MOVES
700,000 TONNE
FROM ANTWERP TO
ZEEBRUGGE
on take care of the transport of paper. The
paper pulp traffic from Brazil to Flanders,
with Oulu in Finland as its final destination,
will from now on be concentrated at the Stora Enso terminal in Zeebrugge’s Wielingen
dock. In the opposite direction the 320,000
tonne traffic from Finland to Antwerp, will
also be handled in Zeebrugge after a transit
through Gothenburg. The Lumipaper plant
on Antwerp’s left bank will be supplied continuously by road from Zeebrugge. The distribution towards the European hinterland
will also be carried out via the coastal port.
www.storaenso.com
The forestry industry also feels the economic crunch. To limit costs the Stora Enso
group has decided to streamline a number
of services and to maximise the use of the
ships deployed. The result is that 700,000
tonne are transferred from Antwerp to Zeebrugge. The ro-ro ship “Vageland”, which
Stora Enso charters for its shuttle service
between Antwerp and Gothenburg, was not
fully-laden. The Cobelfret service between
Zeebrugge and Gothenburg will from now
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PORT NEWS
DFDS REDUCES
CAPACITY ON
EUROBRIDGE SERVICE
AND EXPANDS CAPACITY
ON NORTH SEA
In July DFDS took the fourth extra ship
between Ghent and Gothenburg out of the
rotation. Now that the summer is over, it will
not be deployed again. This reduction of
capacity is due to the disappointing results
of the Danish group during the first half of
the year, given the difficult market circumstances and high bunker prices. The shipping company wants to keep down costs,
among other things by sailing more slowly
and tackling overcapacity. Also, the ropax
service between Germany and Latvia and
the lo-lo service between Ireland and Holland will have to do with one vessel less.
Still, DFDS also expands on the AngloBridge service between Immingham and
Gothenburg by lengthening the three ships
by 30 metres, which means that an additional 25 percent of cargo can be taken on
board. Furthermore the Tor Hafnia, the latest newcomer in the fleet of ro-ro vessels,
was put into service on the ElbeBridge
between Cuxhaven and Immingham. With
this new ship the shortsea operator will
expand the sailings from 5 to 6 a week.
+ 32 9 269 12 69
[email protected]
www.dfds.com
NORFOLK WILL
REACTIVATE ZEEBRUGGEROSYTH IN APRIL
On 14 September 2008 the Blue Star I of
the shipping company Superfast Ferries
made her last crossings between Zeebrugge and Rosyth, Scotland. After attempts
by the Scottish businessman John White to
reactivate the service with his Norshukon
project had failed, Maersk daughter Norfolkline stepped in to take over the service,
which will now be starting again in April as a
ropax link with three departures per week in
each direction. The ropax vessel that will be
deployed is still under construction. Particular attention will be paid in that context to
fuel consumption, precisely the reason why
Superfast halted the service. The freight
capacity will be higher than that of the Blue
Star I, while the passenger capacity will
remain approximately the same.
by a jeep, was driven on board a ro-ro
vessel sailing towards Rauma, Finland.
From there the “Carolus Quinto” was towed
to Jakobstad.
www.finnlines.com
www.carolusquinto.be
© Havenbedrijf Gent GAB - photo Carolus Quinto
+ 32 50 54 28 11
www.norfolkline.com
FINNLINES TAKES ON
BOARD GHENT SLOOP
In August the Ghent sea scouts took part in
the “Atlantic Challenge” in Finland, the most
prestigious competition between longboats
and sloops, replicas of 18th century barges.
The Belgian crew ended fifth out of twelve.
Obviously, the “Carolus Quinto”, the replica
with which the group participated in the
race, did not sail from Ghent to the distant
city of Jakobstad in Finland. That’s where
the shipping company Finnlines came in to
lend a hand. In the port of Antwerp the
sloop, which was loaded on a trailer pulled
PORT NEWS
VOS LOGISTICS WITH
MEGA TRAILERS ON
TRANSFENNICA LINE
GROWING ADDED
VALUE IN BELGIAN
PORTS
According to a first flash estimate by the
National Bank of Belgium, the Belgian ports
together created a direct added value of
17.61 billion euros in 2007, 1.2 billion euros
more than in 2006, which boils down to an
increase of 7.5 % compared to the latter
year. The positive development of the added value in the Belgian ports had a favourable effect on employment. Apart from Zeebrugge, employment rose in all Belgian
ports (+1.6 %). Direct employment increased
by some 2,000 full-time equivalents.
With 9.91 billion euros Antwerp accounted
for more than half of the value added.
Ghent, with 3.86 billion, did well also. Zeebrugge and Ostend made 901 million and
472 million euros respectively. Liège and
Brussels accounted for 1.41 billion and 1.07
billion euros respectively.
The ultimate figures, to be published in the
spring of 2009, may differ slightly.
www.nbb.be
HEAVY FREIGHT
CHOOSES TRANSFENNICA
MAMMOET CARGO
cargo carrier specialises in the transport of
high and heavy freight. Such transport
requires special permits, which in France
and Spain may take ten weeks to obtain.
Mammoet prefers to carry out the route as
much as possible over the maritime motorway leaving Zeebrugge. An interesting feature for the delivery in situ is also that the
weekend sailing arrives in Bilbao on Monday, while at the same time there is a Sunday driving ban in France and Spain.
Shortsea is an excellent alternative for any
cargo coming from the entire north-western
corner of Europe up to and including Poland,
particularly for exceptionally wide cargo.
According to Mammoet it isn’t clear when
and where road or shortsea is more interesting. For all of its transports Mammoet
carefully weighs cost-price and speed
against each other. In Spain Mammoet
works with a number of partners who take
the self-moving vehicles from Bilbao to their
final destination anywhere in Europe.
www.mammoetroadcargo.com
www.transfennica.com
The international logistics company Vos
Logistics, with its 3,000 units one of the
largest players in the field of mega-trailers,
recently started shipping from Zeebrugge to
Bilbao, using the Transfennica service. After
a successful trial period the logistics giant
wishes to turn Zeebrugge and Bilbao into
the logical pivots of its transport planning.
Harm Kasbergen, who is responsible for the
Mega division at Vos Logistics: “Currently
Vos Logistics is busy rounding off a period
of important changes. The operational
organisation is made more flexible so that it
can better anticipate strong fluctuations in
demand for international transport as
regards both volumes and destinations. The
unaccompanied transport to and from Spain
fits into that strategy perfectly and given
today’s tight margins any savings are more
than welcome. We are convinced that
Transfennica has launched the right service
at the right time.”
Vos Logistics Oss B.V.
+ 31 412 699 463
[email protected]
www.voslogistics.com
Transfennica Nederland B.V.
+ 31 20 44 87 600,
[email protected]
www.transfennica.com
GOES SHORTSEA
Mammoet Road Cargo of the Netherlands
has, for over a year now, been a satisfied
customer of the Transfennica service
between Zeebrugge and Bilbao. The heavy-
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• “The fast-growing Turkish economy, although not always very stable in the
past, is now turning the country into a nearby “Asian Tiger”. Turkey is ripe for
investments by multinationals and SMEs that want to be closer to their target
markets.”
Katharina Desmet, until the summer of 2008 Flemish Economic
Representative for Flanders Investment & Trade in Turkey, in Wereldwijs, November 2008.
CROSS-BORDER
BELGIUM:
TOP LOGISTICS LOCATION
PAR EXCELLENCE
According to the European Distribution
Report 2008, which for the first time compares top logistics locations in 25 countries,
Belgium ranks number one. Belgium tops
the list because a number of regions score
extremely well on important criteria, such as
available space for the establishment of
logistics centres. Other trump cards are the
geographical location, close to the large
ports, and the easy access to the main
European markets. Besides, the property
prices are also lower than in the neighbouring countries.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield –
European Distribution Report 2008
SYNERGIE
WITH INLAND
NAVIGATION
HELICOPTER TRANSPORT
ALONG THE WATERWAYS
At the beginning of November the inland
navigation vessel “MS Risky”, owned by the
François-Schmidt family, took a helicopter
from Liège to Bruges, among other things
along the Albert Canal. The flying colossus
was 6.10 metres wide, 34 metres long and
7.45 metres high. With its weight of 30
tonnes this helicopter was certainly a cargo
to be reckoned with. Later on, the “Risky”
also carried a second helicopter from Charleroi to Bruges.
SHORTSEA
INNOVATIONS
SEA-CARGO SHIPS
RUN ON LNG
Sea-Cargo is investing in green ships. Of
the four multipurpose ships the company
recently ordered, two will run on liquefied
gas (LNG). Using LNG will cut the CO2
emission by 20 % and that of nitrogen
oxides (NOX) by almost 90 %. The emissions of sulphur dioxide or SO2 will be
reduced to zero and those of fine dust will
become negligible. The ships will have two
240 m3 LNG storage tanks, a deadweight
capacity of 5,800 dwt and a length of 132.8
metres. The Norwegian shipping company
Sea-Cargo operates a weekly service
between the west coast of Norway, the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. The use
of LNG isn’t new, but most of the time it was
only used on short distances and in combination with other kinds of fuel.
www.sea-cargo.no
After the winter the helicopter will be taken
from Bruges to Russia by coaster. The shipment will then be organised by ABN Transport.
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