Short sea lo-lo for Vlissingen?

Konecranes plans to acquire Rotterdam’s Peinemann Port Services and Container Handling, pending approval from Dutch regulators.

TMA Multimodal BV expands its container handling network with the acquisition of terminals in Utrecht and Lelystad in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands and Brazil ink cooperation deal on green port development.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has this week officially commissioned the Container Exchange Route (CER). Three years overdue, the CER constitutes a closed road network between the deepsea container terminals, container depots and, ideally, most of the warehouses located on Maasvlakte I and II. Effectively, the fenced, concrete 17-kilometre track is an inter-terminal transport system between five competing deepsea container terminals who jointly handle about 13.5M TEU a year.

This high frequency rail link delivers a strategic answer to persistent requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Finland, says the multimodal shortsea shipping company

DB Schenker is delivering 186 containers with medical protective equipment from China to healthcare facilities in Lombardy via the short sea leg from Kaliningrad to Rostock