Port of Amsterdam (POA) will add a new Asia/Europe service in early May this year, an official of the port said on a promotion conference held in Shanghai recently.
The EU5 service by the Grand Alliance was inaugurated on April 15th when the vessel of "Oslo Express" departed Shanghai port. The vessel is expected to call POA on May 9th, the official said.
Port rotation of EU5 is Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Singapore, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Southampton.
EU5 offers faster transit times than EU3 and EU4, the other two Asia/Europe services that call at the Port of Rotterdam. Transit times of EU3 and EU4 from Shanghai to Rotterdam are 30 days and 22 days respectively and 31 days and 38 days from Rotterdam to Shanghai. While on EU5, it only takes 24 days from Shanghai to Amsterdam and 29 days on the return leg, a statement of POA said.
POA now has two Asia/Europe services, including EU1 from Japan and EU2 from South China.
Different from the saturated ports in the same region, POA has great expansion potentials with sufficient capacity. Ratio of capacity demand and supply in POA was 39 per cent in 2007, compared with 98.6 per cent of Germany's Hamburg, the statement said.
POA is a non-congestion port connected with rapid highway, waterway and railway network. Operation cost in POA is low compared with other ports in Northwest Europe as it charges lower port operation fee and all of the supporting facilities including depots and fumigation yards are located nearby, the statement added.
POA, the fourth largest seaport in Northwest Europe, handled 88 million tons in 2007. There have been 25 logistics companies and 20 manufacturers or traders handling cargo transshipment in POA.
The EU5 service by the Grand Alliance was inaugurated on April 15th when the vessel of "Oslo Express" departed Shanghai port. The vessel is expected to call POA on May 9th, the official said.
Port rotation of EU5 is Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Singapore, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Southampton.
EU5 offers faster transit times than EU3 and EU4, the other two Asia/Europe services that call at the Port of Rotterdam. Transit times of EU3 and EU4 from Shanghai to Rotterdam are 30 days and 22 days respectively and 31 days and 38 days from Rotterdam to Shanghai. While on EU5, it only takes 24 days from Shanghai to Amsterdam and 29 days on the return leg, a statement of POA said.
POA now has two Asia/Europe services, including EU1 from Japan and EU2 from South China.
Different from the saturated ports in the same region, POA has great expansion potentials with sufficient capacity. Ratio of capacity demand and supply in POA was 39 per cent in 2007, compared with 98.6 per cent of Germany's Hamburg, the statement said.
POA is a non-congestion port connected with rapid highway, waterway and railway network. Operation cost in POA is low compared with other ports in Northwest Europe as it charges lower port operation fee and all of the supporting facilities including depots and fumigation yards are located nearby, the statement added.
POA, the fourth largest seaport in Northwest Europe, handled 88 million tons in 2007. There have been 25 logistics companies and 20 manufacturers or traders handling cargo transshipment in POA.