MSC achieved almost one million TEU via Rotterdam

Shipping company MSC achieved throughput of almost one million TEU in containers via Rotterdam in 2011, confirmed director Theo van Ravesteijn of MSC Nederland. The volume in Rotterdam this year thus exceeds that of 2010 by an estimated factor of seven. Last year two MSC ships entered the port every week; this year it was fourteen per week.

This explosive growth occurred, because MSC, the second largest container carrier in the world, acquired its ‘own’ transhipment capacity this year at ECT's Delta Terminal on the Maasvlakte. MSC and ECT set up a joint operating company for the so-called Delta Dedicated North terminal, comprising almost one third of the total capacity of eight million TEU. This joint venture hires that capacity from ECT.


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