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New coastal link for Tilbury

Tilbury's London Container Terminal has signed an agreement with MSC Geneva, Italian freight forwarder Zeta System and shipping operator BG Freight to launch a new UK East Coast feeder service. The weekly service which will call at Rotterdam, Tilbury Immingham, Felixstowe and Grangemouth, Scotland and is aimed especially at Italian export customers to the UK. Sole director of Zeta System, Mr Antonio Zaccagnino, said: “This is an important new service for ... [+]

Tilbury triples trainees

The Port of Tilbury in Essex says it will triple the number of trainees it takes on, from 20 in 2013 to at least 60 in 2014. Launched last year, Traineeships give unemployed young people work preparation training and work experience as well as English and maths qualifications. They are ... [+]

New asset manager for London Container Terminal

Tilbury's London Container Terminal has appointed Jamie Frater as its new senior asset manager. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Eastport UK in Great Yarmouth and also sits as a non-executive board member of The Dublin Port Company. [+]

OPDR is Morocco-bound

OPDR has also set up its own Moroccan company, OPDR Maroc Sarlau in Casablanca. The line offers up to three regular sailings per week to and from Morocco. A weekly direct service connects Tilbury and north European ports with Casablanca and vice-versa and a second via the Canary Islands. [+]

Bigger ships for Transfennica

Transfennica has introduced larger ships on its Zeebrugge – Bilbao ro ro and container route. The MV Forerunner and MV Forecaster will operate two sailings per week in each direction, offering a capacity of 3,000 lane metres compared with the previous vessels’ 2,700 lane metres.There are also 12 cabins for ... [+]

More Canary calls for Tilbury

Short-sea shipping and logistics specialist OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) will include a further two calls per week on its CISS Canary Island Services to Tilbury from mid-January. It follows the agreement in November last year for Tilbury's London Container Terminal to handle over 200 calls a year for OPDR services on ... [+]

Project shipping option from Tilbury

NordiKmaritime is offering inducement calls at Tilbury as well as other North European ports to its project and break-bulk shipping service between Bilbao and Esbjerg. It also calls at Nantes, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge Bremen and Hamburg, as well as other Baltic and North Sea destinations, using flexible single hold vessels ... [+]

CMA CGM offers Tilbury-Lagos link

CMA CGM Group will make a major reorganisation of its services between North Europe, the Med and West Africa from mid-December including the addition of UK and Nigeria calls on its PC Weekly service. The seven 3,500teu vessels on the service will call at vessels of 3, 500 teu Tilbury ... [+]

New potatoes

Angela Black, commercial manager of Tilbury’s London Container Terminal welcomed the captain of the OPDR Cadiz with the first shipment of Spanish potatoes this week. They arrived on the first vessel of OPDR’s weekly Bilbao service which has switched to LCT. [+]

Tilbury wins Iberian business

Tilbury's London Container Terminal has signed a deal to handle OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) services between the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, North Africa and the UK. OPDR will switch from Felixtowe to LCT from December starting with two calls on services to and from the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Portugal and Bilbao, followed ... [+]

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