PD Ports launches Felixstowe-Teesport feeder service
PD Ports has launched Logical Link - a coastal feeder container shipping service offering a next-day connection between Felixstowe and Teesport.
This new service operates twice a week (Mondays and Wednesdays), loading in Felixstowe on day one and unloading in Teesport the following morning.
The Logical Link service will reduce operational costs for customers and reduce road freight traffic.
Further benefits of the Logical Link include Teesport's portcentric logistics offering, which enables cargo to be stored closer to its final destination, complemented by Teesport's access to vital Northern road and rail links.
Logical Link also allows PD Ports, through its subsidiary PD Logistics, based in Felixstowe, to offer a fully comprehensive port-to-door service, including warehousing if required.
The service currently runs northwards only, but there will be a longer-term opportunity to export containerised goods from the North of the UK through Teesport to Felixstowe and onward to global destinations on a return southward journey of the coastal feeder ships.
Graham Wall, PD Ports' commercial director, said: "With growing pressure for businesses to seek further efficiency gains and be greener in their approach to business, many companies are seeking alternative ways of shipping goods to their customers. There is, without doubt, a vital need to reduce the amount of freight transported from southern UK ports by road, which is destined for the north of the UK."
PD Ports is seeking to further develop the shortsea/coastal traffic through Teesport, but it has also received government approval to proceed with a new £300 million deep sea container terminal - the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT), scheduled to open in 2012.
Two major retailers have already recognised the benefit of the portcentric concept: ASDA has developed a 360,000 sq.ft import centre within the port area and Tesco is building a 1.2 million sq.ft import centre, with operations due to commence this summer.
This new service operates twice a week (Mondays and Wednesdays), loading in Felixstowe on day one and unloading in Teesport the following morning.
The Logical Link service will reduce operational costs for customers and reduce road freight traffic.
Further benefits of the Logical Link include Teesport's portcentric logistics offering, which enables cargo to be stored closer to its final destination, complemented by Teesport's access to vital Northern road and rail links.
Logical Link also allows PD Ports, through its subsidiary PD Logistics, based in Felixstowe, to offer a fully comprehensive port-to-door service, including warehousing if required.
The service currently runs northwards only, but there will be a longer-term opportunity to export containerised goods from the North of the UK through Teesport to Felixstowe and onward to global destinations on a return southward journey of the coastal feeder ships.
Graham Wall, PD Ports' commercial director, said: "With growing pressure for businesses to seek further efficiency gains and be greener in their approach to business, many companies are seeking alternative ways of shipping goods to their customers. There is, without doubt, a vital need to reduce the amount of freight transported from southern UK ports by road, which is destined for the north of the UK."
PD Ports is seeking to further develop the shortsea/coastal traffic through Teesport, but it has also received government approval to proceed with a new £300 million deep sea container terminal - the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT), scheduled to open in 2012.
Two major retailers have already recognised the benefit of the portcentric concept: ASDA has developed a 360,000 sq.ft import centre within the port area and Tesco is building a 1.2 million sq.ft import centre, with operations due to commence this summer.