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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. 

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. 

Barge Transferium Maasvlakte (BTM) has been launched at the ECT Delta terminal since early June. The BTM is a collaboration between Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam (ECT) and a consortium of inland terminals and barge operators. The BTM contributes to an efficient and reliable handling of barges in the port of Rotterdam.

Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam has developed a new platform to optimize container logistics: MyTerminal.MyTerminal is an online platform for shipping companies, logistics service providers, shippers and other carriers. It provides our customers with real-time information about the status of container (s) on the ECT Delta and ECT Euromax. Current and predictive status information of containers and objects (ships) come together. This allows customers to better organize their logistics processes.

The port of Rotterdam is and will remain operational throughout the current crisis; of course also ECT. Watch the video of our port heroes, who work around the clock to ensure that it’s ‘business as usual’ in the port. Thank you port heroes! 

ECT handles Coronavirus with care. Various measures and protocols have been implemented to protect our employees and visitors.

 
More information on ECT's policy on Coronavirus can be found in the file on this topic.This file is updated with new developments. 

The network of connections European Gateway Services offers between Bavaria in Germany and the port of Rotterdam is increasingly becoming more comprehensive. The Rotterdam - Nuremberg rail shuttle is now already calling at all the deepsea terminals at the Maasvlakte (1 and 2).

We have reported earlier that as of March 1, 2020 it is mandatory for every visitor to the ECT terminals to follow a safety instruction, before one gets access to the terminal.This mandatory safety instruction applies to all visitors, contractors, suppliers, etc.However, this mandatory safety instruction does not apply to truck drivers in possession of a CargoCard who come to charge and/or discharge containers.

As of the 1st of March 2020, it is mandatory for every visitor to the ECT terminals to complete a safety instruction before they are permitted to enter the terminal. Without completing this safety instruction, they will no longer be granted access to the terminal. Everyone is kindly requested to explicitly make all visitors aware of this.It is already possible to follow the safety instruction at this time.

From the end of this week, the IEX service of Hapag Lloyd, Cosco, OOCL, ONE and Yang Ming will call at ECT's ECT Delta terminal. The IEX service is the Southeast India - Europe Express service launched this fall. This service is the only service that connects Southeast India with Europe. THE IEX service will call at the ECT Delta terminal on a weekly basis. The first ship to call at the ECT Delta terminal is the AL Rawdah on November 23, 2019.  

Customs Rotterdam and Hutchison Ports ECT continuously work together to improve the efficiency of the customs process.As part of this, the declaration process for transit (T1 goods) and ‘fiat removal containers’ (Fiat Wegvoering, FWV) from the ECT Euromax terminal will change as per the 16th of September. The changes are as follows:

A new update of the ECT App has been released this week. The App is expanded with a new functionality, whereby the users can set push-notifications in case there is a truck queue at one of the ECT terminals. At individual trip level the user receives a message when he or she can enter the terminal.