NEWS\\\ WEC Lines opens Liverpool office


WEC Lines is to open a commercial office in Liverpool on 1 February to cater for growing demand for its short sea and container services in the north of England. The new location is at the Matchworks site in Speke, and will support WEC services including those between Liverpool and Leixoes and Setubal in Portugal and Barcelona and Valencia is southern Spain. It adds to WEC’s existing UK


head office in Felixstowe and the WEC Scotland sub-agency in Glasgow opened last year, explained UK managing director, Roger Megann. He said that Brexit customs


issues and congestion at other UK container hubs was driving volume increases on short-sea


routes between Europe and regional UK ports. WEC has just launched a


new weekly service between Bilbao and north-central Spain with Thamesport, Immingham, Teesport and Blyth. A regular ship shuttle service is operated by the MV Freya between Bilbao and the Dutch port of Moerdijk where transhipment is made on frequent services to and from the four UK ports. Connections by rail or road are also available to and from the Spanish cities of Barcelona, Zaragoza, Madrid and Valencia. Rail and road connections are also available in the UK between Teesport and Mossend and Grangemouth. Megann said: “Post-Brexit we


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The Innovate UK sponsored Liverpool- Humber Optimisation of Freight Transport (LHOFT) project has run a trial train service operated by Freightliner to deliver food products from Elst, in the Netherlands to the Kraſt Heinz national distribution centre in Wigan. The LHOFT project aims to establish an East-West freight transport corridor linking Liverpool in the West to the Humber port complex in the East. The trial was considered a complete success and Kraſt Heinz is now be considering whether to build on its findings.


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have seen a real growth in demand for container shipping. We can bring containers closer to the cargo owner’s door and, by removing the road miles from the equation, offer customers reduced costs, less congestion, lower emissions, and improved control over their stock.” Demand for container services


has surged during the end of Brexit transition on 1 January. With recent severe congestion at UK ro ro ports, rising trucking


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direct link between Bilbao and the UK east coast and one of the few regular liner services to operate into Blyth - about 20 miles north of Newcastle – where there is significant potential from chemical and paper industries. A range of equipment can be


carried, including 40’ and 45’ high- cube palletwide boxes. Other WEC services include


costs and a growing unwillingness by Continental drivers to visit the UK, prospects for short-sea container shipping are very strong, he said. Containers can


offer similar transit times to most truck services and a high degree of reliability, along with lower emissions and costs. The new route is the first


those between Tilbury and Vigo, Leixoes, Lisbon and Setubal and WEC also covers Morocco, Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores and the Cape Verde islands.


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Egypt has joined the United Nations TIR bonded roadfreight system. In recent years, the TIR system has expanded rapidly in the Middle East and is now fully operational in countries including Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, cutting transport times by up to 90%. Transit times will be further reduced with the implementation of the paperless eTIR system.


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