The company will now conduct a comprehensive viability assessment in order to have a design ready by mid-2022, so as to contract a shipyard which, in turn, would deliver the vessel in 2025.
The route served by DFDS not only offers now six weekly sailings, Monday-through-Saturday, but the transit time has been reduced to 19 hours and all departures take place in the evenings.
Commissioned by the Polish Material Reserves Agency (a governmental institution which purchases, stores, and distributes strategic reserves), Maersk has organised two rail shipments to Małaszewicze - from Xi'an and Yiwu.
The Russian rail freight haulier has started to carry coal and solid bitumen in order to source more containerised cargo for the eastbound leg of the New Silk Road.
While berthed at the VCK Logistics' Waterland Terminal in the Port of Amsterdam, Wilson's 3,500 dwt-big general cargo ship Wilson Goole received power via SKOON's battery.
A barge carrying some 40 FEUs loaded with Chinese goods has arrived at the Scheldt River-located Terminal Bruay-sur-l'Escaut of Contargo near the French Valenciennes close to the Belgian border.