New feeder service UK east coast – Rotterdam

4 March 2014

Forth Ports-owned London Container Terminal (LCT) has reached agreement with shipping line MSC Geneva and container provider Zeta System to establish the new UK East Coast feeder service including the Port of Rotterdam. Zeta System has recently invested in its own fleet of 45ft containers for this service.

Image by Port of Rotterdam Authority

The new service will see MSC work with coastal feeder ship company BG Freight to deliver a new weekly shipping link which will call at the major sea port at Rotterdam in the Netherlands as well as Grangemouth on the Forth, Immingham on the River Humber, the port of Felixstowe and at LCT’s base at Tilbury on the Thames.

Grangemouth
Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest container terminal, currently handles around 150,000 containers per year, representing approximately nine million tonnes of cargo. Around 2.5m tonnes of that figure is made up of ‘dry’ goods, a term used to describe raw materials imported for use in Scottish industry and outgoing finished product.

Consumer products from Italy — including domestic cooking oils and lager — will be among the goods transported in the early days of the new service, but it is hoped the facility will attract new customers once it is fully established.

Source: TheCourier.co.uk, 4-3-2014

Port of Rotterdam Authority press release