Maersk Line confirms third line service for Wilhelmshaven

Eurogate Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven to be integrated into Maersk Line’s ME1 service to the Middle East and India

Maersk Line, the biggest shipping line in the world, has confirmed that it will call at Germany’s only deep-water port with a third scheduled service, its ME1 service, on the Europe–Middle Eastroute. The rotation operates from Felixstowe via Antwerp, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven via Aqaba, Jeddah, Jebel Ali, Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Mundra and Salalah.

The ME1, which will call at Wilhelmshaven for the first time on 26 February 2015, is the third scheduled service that Maersk Line intends to route via Wilhelmshaven in 2015, alongside the two 2M Alliance services. The ME1 service will dock at Wilhelmshaven once a week with ship sizes averaging 6,800 TEU.

In Q1 2015, the newly established 2M Alliance between Maersk Line and MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company will start two regular services in Wilhelmshaven, so that in future the port will be served by three regular main ship services. Added to these is a still unknown number of feeder lines that are responsible for onward transportation.

Eurogate Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven is Germany’s only deep-water container terminal with a water depth of 18 metres. The world’s largest container vessels can access the port at all times around the clock, independently of tidal fluctuations. This saves the shipping lines time and consequently reduces costs.

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