Expecting demand boom, Samskip introduces pre-Brexit peak surcharge

European shortsea shipping line and multimodal operator Samskip is planning a pre-Brexit peak volume surcharge on shipments to the UK.
The company told customers it was already seeing increased demand for container services to the UK as an alternative to using ro-ro services through the ferry ports.
It added that demand was likely to outstrip available vessel capacity in the run-up to 29 March when the UK will leave the EU.
Chief commercial …

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Felixstowe wins back Haag-Lloyd/OOCL service from Southampton

Although not nearly compensating for Felixstowe’s huge loss of business due to severe disruption caused by a disastrous migration to a new terminal operating system in June, the port appears to be starting to win back some lost services.
Hapag-Lloyd has advised that its European Mediterranean Express (EMX) service, which it operates in partnership with OOCL, is to return to UK’s biggest container port with the arrival of the 4,250 teu Heron …

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Hapag-Lloyd and ONE set to operate joint feeder services round the world

Hapag Lloyd and it’s the Alliance partner Ocean Network Express (ONE) have agreed to operate feeder services around the world together.
Under the terms of a “bilateral strategic feeder network cooperation agreement”,  the lines will share space on their respective feeder vessels.
It began with the joint launch of the Bohai Express service in August and is to be extended to the intra-Europe trade this month with the launch of the North Sea …

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