New Moerdijk-Duisburg barge service 'an important alternative to trucking'
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DFDS has announced plans to shake-up its service network connecting the UK, Norway and continental Europe.
The revamp will, effectively, merge its Brevik-Immingham and Brevik-Ghent services into one triangulated loop.
And it will replace the service’s 19-year-old con-ro ship Lysbris Seaways, which has container capacity of 160 teu and side-loading capacity for ro-ro traffic, with the much larger ro-ro vessel Finlandia Seaways (pictured).
DFDS said the new vessel would allow the company to attract other cargo types beyond its core volumes of Norkse Skog paper.
It added: “In addition to ...
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