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London Gateway welcomes Safmarine's maiden call on NE/SA service
DP WORLD's London Gateway terminal welcomed the 5,057-TEU Safmarine Nokwanda, one of eight similar-sized vessels deployed on the weekly service from North Europe to South Africa carrying fruit and wine.
Safmarine, a founding member of the South Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS), which includes Maersk and MOL and Deutsche Africa-Linien (DAL), will upgrade its current panamax vessels of 6,500-7,000 TEUs in the first quarter of 2014.
Tilbury-based shipping port agents MK Shipping for Safmarine and Maersk said the cargo operation at the new deepsea container terminal went without a problem before the vessel departed for Bremerhaven.
MK's business development manager Alistair Flint hopes that the calling of these big name carriers will lead to an increase in business, and its associated niche port services company TLS would grow as more scheduled services and ad-hoc vessels will visit the UK's newest port.
Safmarine, a founding member of the South Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS), which includes Maersk and MOL and Deutsche Africa-Linien (DAL), will upgrade its current panamax vessels of 6,500-7,000 TEUs in the first quarter of 2014.
Tilbury-based shipping port agents MK Shipping for Safmarine and Maersk said the cargo operation at the new deepsea container terminal went without a problem before the vessel departed for Bremerhaven.
MK's business development manager Alistair Flint hopes that the calling of these big name carriers will lead to an increase in business, and its associated niche port services company TLS would grow as more scheduled services and ad-hoc vessels will visit the UK's newest port.
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