Three Baltic ports are included in Maersk Line’s AE10 schedule with the 18,000 TEU ships from August
Gothenburg's announcement follows the one by DCT Gdansk two days ago. Both followed the statement by Karsten Kildahl, Maersk Line’s Chief Executive for the North Europe Region, made during Transport Week 2013 (March 5-7 in Gdansk), that both ports – and Århus – would receive weekly Triple E calls as part of the AE10 service schedule.
The three Baltic ports respectively at the entrance to, just inside and deep inside the Baltic, receive Maersk Emma class (15,000 TEU) calls. Now Maersk has scotched speculation that it would turn round the Triple Es, the first 10 of which will enter service in August, at Bremerhaven.
Test runs have been taking place at Gothenburg for some time to simulate a call by Triple E. "The test runs have proved successful and it is very exciting that what we have simulated will now become a reality. We are ready to welcome this new generation of container ship," said the Port of Gothenburg's Chief Executive Magnus Kårestedt.
"The Port of Gothenburg is one of the few ports in Northern Europe that has fairways that are sufficiently wide and deep and cranes that are sufficiently large to receive Triple E ships. Ships which up to a year or so ago were the largest in the world. These will now be gradually replaced by Triple E ships to service one of the routes between the Port of Gothenburg and the Far East.
"Increased capacity on deepsea services between Sweden and Asia is positive for Swedish industry. This is where trade flows are increasing, whilst European flows are still reporting a poor rate of growth."
Triple E will call at the following 13 ports in AE10: Gdansk, Århus, Gothenburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Tangiers, Singapore, Yantian, Hong Kong, Kwangyang, Ningbo, Shanghai and Tanjung Pelepas.
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