The Port of Tilbury has announced a new service to link it with the Caribbean, Central America and Florida.
From next month, the Port of Tilbury’s London Container Terminal will receive Streamlines’ new BLUE STREAM weekly service.
The port has said the new service “will prove to be one of the fastest Caribbean links to the UK.”
The new Blue Stream service will commence in January 2016 from North Europe and arrive for its inaugural call at Tilbury on the 12th February 2016.
A picture of the StreamLines ship SeaTrade. Photo courtesy http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/
Jamie Frater, Senior Asset Manager, London Container Terminal said: “The new Blue Stream service is great news for LCT and further strengthens our North / South service links, and builds on our existing relationship with Streamline’s parent company Sea Trade, who are already a reefer customer at LCT.”
Pablo Gonzalez from StreamLines said: “At StreamLines, we are extremely proud of this new venture we are stepping into. The company is going through an intensive investment programme, which includes the building of several container ships.
“It is in that spirit too that we have decided to include a call to the Port of Tilbury, which we see as an important entry point for refrigerated cargo to the UK.”
Part of the SeaTrade group, Streamlines is a niche container line which operates in the Caribbean, carrying mainly ‘perishable’ cargo.
The rotation of the new service will be Rotterdam – Tilbury – Radicatel (Le Havre) – Fort de France – Pointe a Pitre – Philipsburg – Moin – Puerto Cortes – Santo Tomas de Castilla – Rotterdam – Tilbury. Article courtesy http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/
