Saturday 4 September 4 2021, the Ever Ace of shipping line Evergreen Marine Company moored at the ECT Delta terminal in the Amazonehaven in Rotterdam. The maiden call of this vessel is extra special, because the Ever Ace is stowed all around with the green Evergreen containers. The Ever Ace was delivered in July from the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea. The ship has a length of 400 m, a beam of 61 m and a capacity of 23,992 TEU. This makes the Ever Ace the largest container vessel in the world.
New Straddle Carriers for Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam
Rotterdam, August 18, 2021 – Ten new hybrid Straddle Carriers arrived today at the ECT Delta terminal (photo). Straddle Carriers are used at the terminal for handling road transport and for loading and unloading the multi-trailer systems, which are used for internal terminal transport. The new Straddle Carriers are part of an extensive investment program in the ECT Delta terminal.
Since today, Thursday 29 July, the Ever Given has been moored at the quayside of the ECT Delta terminal. In close cooperation, Evergreen Marine Corporation and Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam (ECT) have worked out a plan to handle the Ever Given in Rotterdam. All continental European containers will be unloaded in Rotterdam.
Hutchison Ports Venlo, European Gateway Services and ECT Rotterdam offer you fully integrated, high frequent, multi- and intermodal connections and many additional services. The Venlo Express between Rotterdam and Venlo offers you many advantages; see our infographic.
The consequences of the event in the Suez Canal will remain noticeable for a while. In the media, the focus is on the handling of vessels in European seaports. The crux, however, lies in serving the customers in the hinterland as well as possible, by ensuring that export containers do not miss their connection and that import cargo is available in the warehouses as quickly as possible.
European Gateway Services (EGS) is further expanding its network in Southern Germany. With the new connection between Rotterdam and Regensburg in Bavaria, a fourth destination is added to the EGS network in Southern Germany. Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart (Kornwestheim) were already part of the EGS network. EGS is the transport product of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam.
Rotterdam Corridor: Reliable and fast handling with Fixed Windows
For more than two years, Danser Group and European Gateway Services (EGS) have been connecting both the ECT Euromax and ECT Delta terminal of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam on the Maasvlakte with terminals and empty depots in the Waalhaven and Botlek area, including those of the Waalhaven Group and the Kramer Group. The Rotterdam Corridor has a fixed and very reliable (99%) timetable based on fixed windows at the ECT terminals. The Rotterdam Corridor also has fixed connections to RWG and APMT on the Maasvlakte.
Along the quay of the Hutchison Ports ECT Delta terminal on the Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has installed a smart bollard as part of a trial. By measuring the strain on the mooring lines in real time, the bollard not only allows the real-time monitoring of safety, but it also provides a clearer picture of which vessels can moor at which quays. The trial is in line with the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s policy of making the port more efficient through digitisation.
High reliability of Limburg Express requires expansion!
For some time already, European Gateway Services (EGS), Barge Terminal Born and the Danser Group have successfully joined forces in the Limburg Express. For the last two years, the Limburg Express has been maintaining a fixed barge connection between Born, Venlo and the ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam. The partners would now like to scale up to Limburg Express 2.0, in which an additional ship will be deployed that also calls at other terminals in Rotterdam
Last Saturday, November 7, 2020, the NYK Wren, a container vessel with a draft of 16.1 meters, moored in the deepened Amazonehaven, alongside the quay of the ECT Delta terminal.The dredging works, carried out by Van Oord on behalf of the Port of Rotterdam Authority and ECT, was completed two weeks earlier than originally planned.
European Gateway Services is celebraiting its 10 year anniversary! In 2010 Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam founded European Gateway Services as a transport product to better serve our clients. Now, EGS offers a wide variety of intermodal and synchromodal transport connections between all deepsea terminals in the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp and the leading economic centres of Western and Central Europe.
Largest container ships in the world visit the ECT Delta terminal
Four of the newest 24.000 TEU class container ships, the biggest in the world, from shipping company HMM will call at the ECT Delta terminal during their maiden voyage in the coming period.
