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13 October 2020

10 years of European Gateway Services

20 February 2020

Information as a service

Digitisation and data sharing are becoming more important for Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam by the day. The data that comes together at our deepsea terminals helps to improve both our own service provision and the logistics of customers, suppliers and partners. ECT therefore considers...

13 January 2020

5000th Betuwe Express trip - 10 years of back and forth between Rotterdam and Duisburg by rail

At the end of 2019, the Betuwe Express of European Gateway Services (EGS) already marked its 10 th year of reliably and quickly connecting the deepsea terminals at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam with the inland terminal Hutchison Ports Duisburg in Germany. Across 5000 trips, more...

12 December 2019

EGS partner for DHL in organisation of Kyocera’s container flow to Venlo

Scaling up on the seaside requires high frequency on the landside From the European Distribution Centre (EDC) in Beringe near Venlo in the south-east of the Netherlands, the Japanese company Kyocera Document Solutions supplies printers and accessories to the whole of Europe,...

4 July 2019

The one-stop-shop of European Gateway Services

Directly following upon the deepsea transport, European Gateway Services (EGS) offers a great number of sustainable transport services from and to the leading economic centres in Western and Central Europe. General Manager Paul Zoeter explains the advantages of explicitly opting for EGS for...

11 June 2019

Fixed Windows improve Barge Handling

Since early 2019, it has been possible for barges at ECT to officially make use of fixed windows. In this new concept, qualifying barge operators are unloaded and loaded at fixed times at both Hutchison Ports ECT Delta and Hutchison Ports ECT Euromax. Several barge operators...

22 October 2018

Hapag-Lloyd customer of ECT for 50 years!

From the very beginning of container handling in 1968 to today's global container industry: the 23rd of October 2018 marks Hapag-Lloyd’s 50 th anniversary as a customer of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam. On the 23 rd of October 1968, the Weser Express of Hapag-Lloyd...

19 July 2018

Container scan ECT Delta unique in the world

From now on, Hutchison Ports ECT Delta drives containers selected for a customs inspection through a hypermodern container scan located at its own terminal site. The customs facility, which was commissioned in the first half of 2018, combines the latest dual view technologies with the...

11 June 2018

Everything for a smooth handling

With a capacity of 21,413 TEU, the six G-class vessels of OOCL are currently the largest in the world. In Rotterdam, the ships are unloaded and loaded at the Hutchison Ports ECT Euromax terminal. In close consultation with the shipping line, handling is a streamlined process here. The...

26 April 2018

ECT offers broad range of customs facilities

Never in Front of a Closed Gate For most of the road hauliers calling at the deepsea terminals of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam, the digital handling of customs formalities is a matter of course. “But drivers carrying paper documents will also always remain welcome here,” says...

15 March 2018

Building the Future

Leo Ruijs (CEO ECT) on new employees, tailor-made solutions and reducing peaks ‘We are building our future’ ECT is currently in the process of recruiting one hundred new operational colleagues. CEO Leo Ruijs explains how this fits in with the company’s outlined...

5 December 2017

50 years of ECT, 50 years of social innovation

The arrival of the first container ship in 1966 marked the start of a completely new way of working in the port of Rotterdam; a true game changer. As the pioneering container terminal operator, ECT had a lot to discover, also in terms of social policy. On the 1st of January 1971, ECT entered...

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