European short sea Ro-Ro specialist CLdN have introduced a new call at the Port of Liverpool, opening the first pure RoRo service in a triangle trade between Santander (ES), Liverpool (UK) and Dublin (IE).The new service will operate a weekly loop connecting Spain directly to the UK and Ireland. This… Read more »
Irish Ferries announces daily departures to France for Summer 2018
Irish Ferries has published details of the new sailings schedule it will introduce following the arrival in mid-2018 of its new 55,000 tonnes cruise ferry W. B. Yeats currently being built in Flensburg, Germany. Highlights of the plan will see a doubling in the number of summer sailings between Ireland… Read more »
ICG cuts the first steel for new €144 Irish Ferries cruise ferry
Eamonn Rothwell, Chief Executive of Irish Continental Group plc accompanied by Andrew Sheen, Managing Director of Irish Ferries (Friday, April 7th 2017) visited the shipyard of Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesselschaft & Co.KG in Flensburg, Germany to oversee the cutting of the first steel plate for use in the construction of their new… Read more »
New Ireland Max Container Vessels for BG Freight Line
BG Freight Line, a fully owned subsidiary of Peel Ports Group, is to receive new tailor-made short sea container feeder vessels optimised for the company’s Irish Sea Hub services. The new class of ‘green’ vessels has been developed by BG Freight Line operation with ARKON Shipping as project initiator/commercial manager,… Read more »
Sea Truck Ferries celebrates Irish Sea milestone
Sea Truck Ferries now have 12 vessels with six operating on the Irish Sea, undertaking more than 60 departures and handling around 7,000 freight units per week. They have invested 400million euro in 12 vessels, including eight new builds, to add to our fleet and they transport around 325,000 units of freight… Read more »
Freight traffic continues to increase on Irish Sea ferry routes
The number of freight units carried by ferry companies on the Irish Sea and the English Channel increased by 4.8 per cent to 4.41 million units in 2015, according to figures published today by Discover Ferries. A strong economy has driven the growth with the amount of freight increasing… Read more »
EFL Distribution has new partner in trade between Ireland and the Benelux
Dublin-based EFL International Distribution has signed an agency partnership with the Swiss Gondrand International Ltd, which will see the two companies offering freight forwarding and logistics services in the trade between Ireland and the Benelux countries. Joint import and export services between EFL International Distribution and Gondrand International have commenced,… Read more »
