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Jul 29
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FERRY SHIPPING

By | 2021 Newsletter week 30 | No Comments

Grimaldi Adds Zeebrugge to its Belgium – Ireland Service

  • 2/w Belgium — Ireland (Cork) ­— Belgium
  • Week schedule: Antwerp-Zeebrugge-Cork-Zeebrugge-Cork-Zeebrugge-Antwerp
  • Ship: EUROCARGO BARI: 3,850 lane metres + 200 cars
  • Start of cooperation with P&O Ferries

At the beginning of May, Grimaldi started a twice-weekly roro service between Antwerp and Cork, with EUROCARGO BARI as route vessel.

Now, since Saturday 24 July, the ship calls twice a week in Zeebrugge, and once a week in Antwerp.

Zeebrugge was already connected with Cork, by the service from CLdN.

Interesting is the cooperation between Grimaldi and P&O Ferries.

In the port of Zeebrugge, the Grimaldi ship calls at the terminal of P&O Ferries.

The press release states that, “the cooperation with P&O Ferries will be extended to commercial activity as well.”

Jan 24
1

PORTS

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Port of Zeebrugge: Growth of 3% in 2020

Zeebrugge stayed 100% operational during the pandemic. Roro traffic suffered because of the reduced handling of new cars. This drop was compensated by a strong growth in container traffic, LNG and solid bulk.

The port took a lot of initiatives to be Brexit-proof and invested twice as much into new infrastructure.

Modal shift: the port sees an important growth of rail connections, and estuary waterway connections went up 4.2%

CLdN

  • Added a call in Zeebrugge on the route Leixões – Rotterdam, allowing cargo to be transferred to Esbjerg and Göteborg.
  • Zeebrugge – Dublin: from 2 to 3 sailings with so-called “Brexit busters”
  • Zeebrugge – Cork: new route
  • Zeebrugge – Santander: ships VALENTINE en CELANDINE = +40% capacity

P&O Ferries

  • End of ropax service Zeebrugge – Hull, means end of accompanied freight

DFDS

  • Introduction of FLANDRIA SEAWAYS on 4 October 2020, Zeebrugge – Göteborg

Read the full report

https://portofzeebrugge.be/en/news-events/port-zeebrugge-3-growth-2020

Oct 08
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PHOTOS OF THE WEEK

By | 2020 Newsletter week 41 | No Comments

FLANDRIA SEAWAYS meets HUMBRIA SEAWAYS in Zeebrugge

On Sunday October 4, Port of Zeebrugge welcomed DFDS newest ship FLANDRIA SEAWAYS on her maiden trip in the service Zeebrugge – Göteborg.

The ship arrived at the PSA-terminal in Zeebrugge at the Wielingendok. This dock has recently been modified to be able to accommodate ships of this size. The jetty has been lengthened by 40m, and extra mooring arrangements have been provided.

The same day, HUMBRIA SEAWAYS arrived as well, making it a unique get together.

HUMBRIA SEAWAYS is now back on Vlaardingen – Immingham.

The new ship was shown (coronaproof) to the new CEO of Port of Zeebrugge, Tom Hautekiet. He was accompanied by Alain De Brauwer (DFDS), Theo Milliau (PSA), Harbour master Joris Praet and the ship’s agent.

Jun 25
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CLdN Links Leixōes with Göteborg Via Zeebrugge

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Only one week after the launch of their new triangle service between Santander, Liverpool and Dublin, CLdN Ro-Ro has added Zeebrugge as a port of call to their bi-weekly Leixōes-Rotterdam service.

This move strengthens CLdN’s network to and from the Iberian Peninsula even further.

CLdN has organised for two of their weekly services from Leixōes to Rotterdam, to have an extra call in Zeebrugge. From the port of Zeebrugge they will, as from now, offer their clients additional through – shipment services to Esbjerg and Göteborg. “As a result, we now have a reliable, cost-efficient and environmentally friendly shortsea connection from the very south to the most northern parts of Europe,” says a CLdN spokesman.

To maximise capacity and minimise their carbon footprint as much as possible, the shipping company has chosen to deploy the latest generation of H5 class vessels (carrying up to 450 freight units + 200 new cars per shipment) to the route.

WATCH First Arrival Of CLdN LAURELINE In The Port Of Leixões

Oct 10
1

CLdN Added 37 km Of RoRo Capacity In Two Years Next Step: LNG And More Ships

By | 2019 Newsletter week 41 | No Comments

HERMINE is yet another newbuilding for CLdN. She started to operate last week from Zeebrugge to the UK. She’s the last unit of a 5,400 lane meter quartet of Hyundai Mipo built roro ships, including LAURELINE, YSALINE and SIXTINE. Before, two larger 8,000 lane meter roro’s were delivered, the CELINE and DELPHINE.

Previously, the order for two vessels at the Uljanik Yard have been cancelled because of the financial problems of the yard.

Instead, in July 2019 CLdN placed an order for an additional two roro’s at Hyundai Mipo. The major difference will be the fact that they will use LNG as fuel.

The two roro’s will have a 320m3 capacity C-type fuel tank, located under the main deck.

The 4+2 delivered roro ships are LNG-ready.

Four more ships will be ordered, as part of a twelve-ship expansion plan.

Apr 26
0

Fire Damage To Ship Causes Closure Of Zeebrugge – Rosyth Freight Route

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On Monday 16 April, a fire broke out in the engine room on board DFDS’ ro-ro FINLANDIA SEAWAYS, which connects Zeebrugge with Rosyth.

The ship was towed to DFDS’ terminal in Immingham, where the cargo on board has been discharged, and where DFDS had the opportunity to carry out an inspection of where the fire took place.

The ship will be out of service for several months for repairs. No suitable replacement ships are available. Because the route was already loss-making it has been decided to close the route.

The Zeebrugge – Rosyth route was first started in 2002 by Superfast Ferries.

Source: DFDS
Jan 25
0

Migrants find new ways to take the ferry to England

By | 2018 Newsletter Week 04 | No Comments

People smugglers have found a new way to get migrants on ferries to the UK. Since many years migrants try to get illegally in Britain by hiding in lorries and containers in Continental ports like Calais and Zeebrugge. The latter is also the biggest port for the handling of new cars. It has been discovered that more migrants try to hide in new cars to get in Britain, since travelling unseen in trucks has been made almost impossible.
How to recognize a car bound for the UK? It is very simple: the steering wheel is on the right hand side.