EXXTOR TERMINAL WELCOMES ARRIVAL OF NEW CONTAINER SERVICE
On Sunday, 17 September, Exxtor Terminal, the four-berth ro-ro and lo-lo terminal, operated by Associated British Port’s (ABP) at the Port of Immingham, welcomed the arrival of mv Passaden, marking the start of the latest lo-lo container service to call at the facility.
Kursiu Linija, the Lithuania-based short-sea container shipping line, operates the service, which will call at Exxtor Terminal every four days as part of a revamped scheduled service that also takes in Rotterdam, Klaipeda in Lithuania and Liepaja in Latvia. Two vessels will be deployed on the service – the 366-teu* mv Baltic Sea and the 374-teu mv Passaden. Kursiu Linija has now consolidated all of its UK calls at Exxtor Terminal.
ABP Port Director for Grimsby & Immingham Nick Palmer said that the new service is an important business win for Exxtor Terminal:
“This is excellent news for the terminal and the port. In the last two years, we have invested heavily in new handling and storage facilities, and backed by a skilled staff, we offer the highest levels of customer service. This new agreement will be beneficial to us both and I look forward to working with Kursiu Linija for many years to come.”
Martin Dale, Commercial Director of Kursiu Linija, said:
“The consolidation of our UK port calls at Exxtor Terminal allows larger vessels to be deployed, but above all it allows Kursiu Linija to increase the frequency of the service and to include a second call each week at Rotterdam. The geographical location of the terminal is also ideally matched to the end destination of the imported goods we carry. We look forward to resuming our working relationship with Exxtor Terminal.”
Work has recently been completed on a £8.8 million expansion programme at Exxtor Terminal. The project, which included the installation of a second Liebherr P98L ship-to-shore container gantry crane, two rubber-tyred yard-stacking gantry cranes and an advanced computerised container-location system, has extended the terminal’s handling capacity to approximately 200,000 containers per annum. The provision of further container storage space has boosted container storage capacity to 13,579 teus.
*teu = twenty-foot equivalent units, a standard measure of container size |
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