Port Direct Newsletter
May 2024
Welcome to the new edition of the Port Direct newsletter, we hope you enjoy reading our latest containerised cargo news and updates.
Fastest container service between Ireland and North America launched!
Fastest container service between Ireland and North America launched!
Atlantic Container Line's new transatlantic service in partnership with BG Freight Line and Peel Ports Group will have transit times up to two weeks faster than any similar service travelling between Dublin/Belfast and North America via a UK or Continental transshipment port.
The partnership will offer importers and exporters quicker than ever before access to/from the USA and Canada.
MSC growth strategy supported by Port of Liverpool
A senior delegation from Mediterranean Shipping Company (UK) Limited reaffirmed their commitment to the Port of Liverpool during a visit to the Port on 22nd February. Together with Peel Ports Group (Containers) Commercial team, members of MSC’s Commercial and Trade teams spent the day seeing the Port’s infrastructure and capability for themselves, before developing a joint strategy that will support customers seeking to import their cargo closer to its end destination in the northern hinterland of the UK. With approximately 30% of the market within Liverpool’s natural hinterland and 60% of the UK and Ireland closer to the Port of Liverpool compared to southern UK ports, there is an increasing demand for shipping services to offer a northern load/discharge option.
MSC’s UK West Coast Service, already a vital link between Türkiye and Liverpool, offers customers a reliable route for cargo transportation between the UK and European markets, but also provides customers with reliable ‘mother vessel to mother vessel’ transshipment between India, Pakistan and the Far East to the key UK West Coast port of Liverpool. By leveraging this product to bring cargo closer to its end destination, cargo owners are able to reduce supply chain cost and carbon emissions, whilst also increasing supply chain reliability and certainty, avoiding unnecessary complexity and duration of inland distribution to/from southern ports.
Ocean Network Express visit Port of Liverpool.
The Port of Liverpool recently hosted senior executives from Ocean Network Express UK. As well as an extensive tour of the Port facilities, we discussed the potential for the Port of Liverpool to support ONE's strategy of sustainable growth, simplifying ONE customers’ supply chain across the four pillars of Accessibility, Cost, Carbon and Congestion.
Loading and discharging cargo near to its origin or destination creates significant benefit towards supply chain certainty and resilience by reducing the risk of delay from congested UK road and rail networks. Lower overall transportation cost and lower carbon emissions are also achieved when short haul cargo deliveries replace the long journeys required to deliver from southern ports into the northern UK hinterland.
Shandong Port Group Conference – UK Business Co-Operation Dialogue
Peel Ports presented to an audience at the London Marriot Regents Park which included leading industry figures such as Mark Logan MP, Jack Perry Chairman of the 48 Club Group and MS Bao Ling, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the UK Chinese Embassy
Of most interest were UK CEO of Cosco Shipping ( Wang Gang ), and Chairman of Shandong Port group, Huo Gaoyuan
This engagement and further round table discussions lead to collaboration between Qingdao port and Liverpool port noting synergys between the two. Further discussions will take place in the coming months to forge a partnership involving shipping lines such as Cosco to improve the current sea services between Qingdao and Liverpool. Many leading BCO's have stock shipping from Qingdao port and are watching this progress with interest.
Join us at Multimodal Exhibition from June 11-13 at the NEC in Birmingham.
The exhibition provides cargo owners, shippers, and other supply chain professionals a space to innovate, connect and make logistics more sustainable.
Our team will be on hand to discuss supply chain efficiencies, sustainable shipping options, innovative logistic solutions and much more.
Visiting the event?
