Dedicated Denmark-Norway ro-ro in New Year
Seatruck Ferries Ltd and Federicia Shipping have announced the a new ro-ro trailer cargo service to be called Fredericia-Moss, which will run between Fredericia in Denmark and Moss in Norway. The first sailing will be from Fredericia on Monday 5 January, 2009.
Fredericia-Moss
will offer three weekly sailings in each direction on the M/S Moondance, which will accommodate 50 trailers. The ship will call Monday, Wednesday, Friday/Saturday in Fredericia and Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday in Moss.The new route willaccept both driver accompanied and unaccompanied trailers and will cater for hazardous cargo, reefers and oversize traffic as well as containers.
Seatruck commercial director Alistair Eagles from was understandably enthusiastic about the new service, saying, ‘We have strived to meet a growing customer demand for a direct ro-ro trailer cargo service from the Oslo Fjord into the central industrial zone of Denmark. The service offers a direct connection to rail services into central Europe through the rail terminal in Taulov/Fredericia as well as direct transhipment to the existing DFDS Baltic Service via the port of Fredericia.’
Fredericia Shipping will be managing agent for the new Seatruck service and will be responsible for all customer service, booking, freight collection and sales matters.
Managing director Klaus G. Andersen is confident that the new service will be well received by the forwarding community. ‘Much of the Norway traffic which is today routed via Northern Jutland is originating from or destined to the central industrial region of Denmark and continental Europe. Through the new ro-ro vessel connection via Fredericia we will save about 500km of driving for each round trip trailer, which will reduce traffic on the already congested roads, reduce CO2 emissions and save driving hours for the truck drivers.’
Alistair Eagles added that Federica-Moss will be a pure cargo service. ‘All other existing ro-ro services between Denmark and Norway are combined tourist and cargo services. Trailers often find themselves being shut out in peak tourist seasons due to lack of vessel capacity. This will not happen on our service. We only cater to cargo trailer traffic. This also gives us the benefit that we can accept all types of hazardous cargo which the tourist services cannot.’
