WEC Lines enters the trucking competition with new services
Alternative to Eurotunnel and ferries
Shortsea shipping company WEC Lines has introduced a weekly container service that partly competes with road transport.
Rob Mackor
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This service connects the UK, France and North West Europe as well as Casablanca in Morocco. According to the director Caesar Liegenaar offers connections, especially on the route between France’s Montoir-de-Bretagne and Thamesport near London, an alternative to road transport between Western France and England via Eurotunnel or one of the ferry services.
With an alias The Euro-Maroc service combines two existing services into a connection with fixed weekday calls at ten ports of call. This will be done with three 800 teu vessels, ‘WEC van Eyck’, ‘WEC van Ruysdael’ and ‘Tina’, which will sail in 21 days.
Ports of call are Thamesport, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Montoir, Bilbao, Vigo, Leixões, Setubal, Casablanca and Figueira da Foz. Based on Subordinate these ten formed ‘a well-connected bridge between these important trading centres’. Montoir is visited both south and north, meaning the Breton port is visited twice a week in both directions.
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