Le Havre : MSC Shipping Company will start a very significant phase of business development at their new terminal in the Port of Le Havre, by receiving the first vessel of three new feeder services on Jan 21, 2013.
According to Hervé Martel – Executive Director of the Grand Port Maritime du Havre and Member of the HAROPA Board of Directors, the 2nd world biggest shipowner deploying services via the leading port for the external trade of France strengthens the dynamic move initiated by HAROPA in the field of containers.
MSC will offer three new weekly feeder services via Le Havre. Operated by vessels of a unit capacity of 1,600 TEU*, the services will raise the number of weekly maritime calls by the shipping company in Le Havre to 13 by the end of January. Stephan Snijders, Executive Director of MSC France said “With, as a result, some 350,000 additional TEU* on our TNMSC terminal at Port 2000, the new services are the 1st stage of our business growth plan in Le Havre”.
In a next future, MSC actually plans further development in shipping services thus strenghtening the part played by the Port of Le Havre as a hub.
The first shipping service received at the ‘quai du Havre’, the Liverpool Express will be operated by the MSC Conti Chiwan; calling on January 21st.This weekly feeder service will carry out transhipment connections with Great Britain via Le Havre.
The MSC John Rickmers will inaugurate, at the TNMSC terminal in Port 2000, the Ireland & Scotland Express weekly service with the ports of Dublin and Greenock. Finally, the MSC Aries will operate, every week as from January 26th, the Biscay Express service calling in at the ports of the Atlantic coast: Brest, Montoir and Le Verdon.
According to Hervé Cornède HAROPA Commercial Director this development confirms the high quality of the service supply offered to shipowners with Port 2000. »
In addition to the shipping business development performed in Le Havre, MSC provides straight from its Port 2000 facilities four river services along the Seine artery for containers. Seven return voyages per week are thus provided to and from Le Havre with the HAROPA terminals of Rouen, Gennevilliers, Limay and Evry.
The services benefit by the fluvio-maritime procedure set up by Customs on the Seine corridor.
Grouping together the three ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, HAROPA has the ambition to strengthen its position on world container traffic by offering a comprehensive service to customers.
Owing to a privileged location at the entrance to and exit from the North-European range, HAROPA provides the shortest transit times to serve the French and European markets, a one-stop shop (the Cargo Community System CCS AP+), as well as a coherent and environment-friendly transport system and maritime connections with all the continents (more than 500 ports of call worldwide).
