Two small feeders enhance Zeebrugge estuary container services

Estuary container shipping is growing in Zeebrugge with PortConnect, which offers container transport between Zeebrugge and Antwerp, having added two small feeder ships, strengthening the connection between Zeebrugge and neighbouring ports.

The new vessels are the 200TEU Polybotes, which initially used by PortConnect for the inland transport of Ro-Ro cargo, and the 400TEU Euroports, which sailed nine years for the Sogestran Group on the Seine between Rouen and the Port 2000 of Le Havre.

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M&A radar: Port mergers whet the appetite for further deals

China’s bubbling M&A activity in the port market took another step recently when Cosco Shipping Ports bought a 34.99% equity stake in Tianjin Container Terminal (TCT) – this is simply the latest move in the ongoing merger of terminal capacity in the north-east Chinese port.
It is the latest result in a plan that was hatched around a year ago in which the three owners – Cosco, Tianjin Port Holdings and China …

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NYK Subsidiary Begins Wind Power Generation At Port Of Zeebrugge’s Vehicle Logistics Terminal

NYK Subsidiary Begins Wind Power Generation at Finished-Vehicle Logistics Terminal in Belgium

On February 5, 11 wind turbines started operation on the grounds of a finished-vehicle logistics terminal owned and operated by International Car Operators N.V. (ICO), a wholly-owned NYK subsidiary company operating in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. This installation is Flanders’s largest onshore wind farm project.

Operation of 11 wind turbines

To operate the wind-power generation business at the finished-vehicle logistics terminal in Zeebrugge, ICO has established the joint-venture company ICO...

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