PD Ports has launched Logical Link, a coastal feeder container shipping service offering a next day connection between the UK ports of Felixstowe and Teesport.
This new service operates two sailings per week on Mondays and Wednesdays, loading in Felixstowe on day one and unloading in Teesport the following morning, a company statement said.
The Logical Link service is expected to reduce operational costs for customers and minimise the adverse impact that road transport has on the environment. Further benefits of the Logical Link include Teesport's port centric logistics offering, which enables cargo to be stored closer to its final destination, complemented by Teesport's access to northern road and rail links.
Logical Link also allows PD Ports, through its subsidiary PD Logistics, based in the Port of Felixstowe, to offer port-to-door service, including warehousing.
"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," said PD Ports commercial director Graham Wall.
PD Ports is seeking to further develop the shortsea/coastal traffic through Teesport but it has also been given Government approval to proceed with a new GDP300 million (US$427.07 million) deep sea container terminal, known as the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT), scheduled to open in 2012.
Two major retailers have already agreed to build import centres within the port area. ASDA, part of the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart, calculates that its 2005 decision to develop a 109,728-square-metre import centre at Teesport has already reduced its road travel by over 2 million miles per annum. The use of the Logical Link service is expected to help it further reduce that road travel. Tesco is currently building a 0.36 million sq metre import centre at Teesport, with operations due to commence this summer.
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, the release added.
This new service operates two sailings per week on Mondays and Wednesdays, loading in Felixstowe on day one and unloading in Teesport the following morning, a company statement said.
The Logical Link service is expected to reduce operational costs for customers and minimise the adverse impact that road transport has on the environment. Further benefits of the Logical Link include Teesport's port centric logistics offering, which enables cargo to be stored closer to its final destination, complemented by Teesport's access to northern road and rail links.
Logical Link also allows PD Ports, through its subsidiary PD Logistics, based in the Port of Felixstowe, to offer port-to-door service, including warehousing.
"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," said PD Ports commercial director Graham Wall.
PD Ports is seeking to further develop the shortsea/coastal traffic through Teesport but it has also been given Government approval to proceed with a new GDP300 million (US$427.07 million) deep sea container terminal, known as the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT), scheduled to open in 2012.
Two major retailers have already agreed to build import centres within the port area. ASDA, part of the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart, calculates that its 2005 decision to develop a 109,728-square-metre import centre at Teesport has already reduced its road travel by over 2 million miles per annum. The use of the Logical Link service is expected to help it further reduce that road travel. Tesco is currently building a 0.36 million sq metre import centre at Teesport, with operations due to commence this summer.
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, the release added.