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MSC has inaugurated a weekly Eastern Cape Express Service from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) and Walvis Bay to Rotterdam, London Gateway, and Antwerp. The service avoids Cape Town, cutting transit time to London Gateway to 22 days. It has been launched at the beginning of the grape season to meet the demand for reefers and will complement the Namibia Grape Express service.
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MSC has opened a 15,000sq m cold storage facility in Durban. Part of the line’s Medlog logistics division, it has a capacity of 8,000 to 10,000 pallets and can handle goods such as imported chicken or exports, primarily citrus.
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MSC has extended its weekly Greece/Türkiye/UK West Coast service from Liverpool to include Portbur (Bristol) and Greenock, the only direct service between the three countries. Typical transit times include Aliaga (Türkiye) to Liverpool in 12 days, Tekirdag (Türkiye) to Greenock (17 days) and Valencia to Bristol (14 days).
Port rotation of ...
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Scotland’s deepest container terminal has handled its largest-ever container vessel.
Greenockhosted the 300m long, 6750teu MSC Magnum VII on Saturday 7 October.
The 75,000-tonne container vessel arrived via Peel Ports Clydeport’s sister facility at the Port of Liverpool, before departing for Bristol the following day.
The Clydeport team loaded containers of spirits, destined ...
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Container line MSC will include the port of NEOM in Saudi Arabia from September. As well as offering ocean freight services, it will offer inland transport solutions provided by its logistics arm, MEDLOG from the port, located at Oxagon on the Red Sea.
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DB Schenker has signed an agreement with shipping line MSC to use 12,000 tonnes of biofuel for all its container traffic. The amount of biofuel purchased will save 35,000 tonne of CO2 equivalents and is one of the largest carbon-insetting biofuel deals between a freight forwarder and a shipping company, ...
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Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has broken its own record for the most containers handled on a single ship for the third time in two months with 27,961teu on the MSC Amelia which sailed from the port on 8 March. The previous record was 25,852teu on the Moscow Maersk the ...
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MSC is offering an intermodal road/rail route between the port of Djibouti and Ethiopia. It offers journey times of between one and four days to locations such as Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Modjo. Connecting MSC services at the port of Djibouti include the NWC IPAK service direct connection to North Europe.
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MSC has launched an intermodal service between Asia and Europe. It will combine sea and rail service from China, Korea and Japan to Europe, via Vladivostok and Vostochniy with further sea feeder connections from St Petersburg to major European hubs such as Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam and Le Havre.
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MSC UK has shipped a 40 foot high cube container of medical supplies to Antsirabe Hospital in Madagascar for Operation Smile, a charity which provides free surgical procedures for children and young adults born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities.
The shipping line covered all UK charges including ...
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