Transport line UECC is commencing operations within the Port of Gothenburg. UECC can be transporting autos and different rolling cargo to and from the Central European freight hub Zeebrugge through the ports of Esbjerg and Drammen. The site visitors reaches Gothenburg each week, beginning this week.
”We’re happy to welcome UECC to the Port of Gothenburg. They’ll supply further alternatives that can strengthen the Port of Gothenburg’s place as Sweden’s largest car port. The site visitors expands our line vary and responds to our buyer’s rising curiosity in vehicle- and rolling cargo transport,” mentioned Claes Sundmark, Vice chairman Gross sales and Advertising and marketing on the Gothenburg Port Authority.
The brand new site visitors Is launched within the mild of recent contracts with some main European car producers. The site visitors enhances the delivery firm’s current Atlantic service, which connects Vigo, Zeebrugge, Bremerhafen, Malmoe and Drammen. By way of transhipment in Zeebrugge, the site visitors will be related to different ports in Europe and the world.
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Vessel M/V Minchah made it’s premiere name att Gothenburg on Monday. Photograph: Gothenburg Port Authority.
UECC’s vessels will name on the Port of Gothenburg’s rail related car and ro-ro-terminal, and it’s the terminal operator Logent Ports and terminals that can do deal with loading and unloading. By way of the port of Gothenburg, the whole Swedish market is then successfully reached by the well-developed railway system Railport Scandinavia.
The brand new loop will initially be operated by the M/V Minchah vessel, however will most likely get replaced by one of many UECC’s new LNG / battery hybrid vessels in manufacturing. LNG operation with battery hybrid know-how together with a hull form optimized for higher gas effectivity reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 25 %, SOx and particles by 90 % and NOx by 85 % in comparison with utilizing solely LNG, the UECC states.
Supply: The Port of Gothenburg
