News / Samskip and Boluda launch Spain-UK shortsea service

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Intra-European multimodal operator Samskip and Spain’s Boluda Shipping are to launch a new Spain-UK shortsea service this week.

The weekly service will connect Boluda’s recently opened €40m container terminal in the north Spanish port of Santander with the UK’s port of Liverpool.

It is likely to come as something of relief to the UK west coast gateway, where low box volumes recently forced management to put around 125 dockers on notice of redundancy.

The service will be operated by the 803 teu Lucia ...