Ten years ago, Sea and Shore Services was launched in the port of Rotterdam: an all-round service provider focusing on container flows between Europe, Asia and the United States. Today, the company employees 34, has 25,000 containers and 500 tonnes of air cargo transported annually and fully takes care of all the logistics needs of customers.

The management of Sea and Shore Services consists of general manager Kees Moolenaar and operational director Dennis de Ruiter, the two founders of the company, and commercial director Dimitri van Bekkum. According to them, their company provides the most efficient solutions for transporting large volumes from A to B. Van Bekkum: “We use all the modes of transport necessary for this. By smartly combining container flows, we can improve efficiency for our customers. One of our strengths is that we have a good balance between imports and exports, which are almost equal in terms of volumes. This enables us to limit the number of empty kilometres and carry out transport more cost efficiently”. Sea and Shore Services works for many different clients in various sectors. DeRuiter. “We are AEO-certified and as a member of the board of the Global Alliance play a prominent role within this global international network of freight forwarders. Furthermore, we are continuously looking for nice markets. One example of this is the overseas transport of complex goods such as recyclables and disposables, both dangerous and harmless (including the entire process regarding environmental compliance). In this respect, we aim to always transport cargo sustainably”.

 

Warehousing among new focal points

Besides the port of Rotterdam, Sea and Shore Services also operates in Moerdijk and in Amsterdam with warehousing and logistics services; the warehouse in Amsterdam spans 17,000m2. Warehousing is one of the new focal points of the company. Moolenaar: “Some customers are looking for a logistics partner to take on their entire logistics needs at a fixed price per pallet or product. We want to accommodate them in this. We offer storage, cross docking and value-added logistics, while at the same time we can perform highly localised distribution as well. Customers who use us for this can fully focus on their core business”. Since half a year, Sea and Shore Services has been located in a new building in Schiedam. The panoramic view of the Nieuwe Maas River symbolises the new phase which the company has now embarked upon one decade after its inception.

Van Bekkum: “We are a flat organisation with a one-stop shopping concept, short lines of communication with the customer and dedicated account managers for large customers. That will not change. In the coming years, we aim to grow, handle larger volumes and add more logistics hotspots that offer the same high service levels”.

 

OOCL orders six 21,100 teu units

OOCL has ordered six containerships of 21,100 teu at Samsung Heavy Industries (Korea) at a price of $158.6 M per unit, with deliv-ery planned in 2017. The capacity advertised by Samsung takes into account additional layers of containers aimed at the repositioning of empties.

These ships will be 400 m long with a 58.80 m breadth allowing 23 container rows on deck. They are similar to the 18,000-20,000 teu ships built or ordered so far, of which 77 units in total have been con-firmed to date.

OOCL is the second partner of the G6 alliance to order ships of this size, after MOL, which unveiled a newbuilding program for six 20,150 teu units one month ago. A total of seven carriers have ordered ships of this class, spread across all four main alliances.

Hanjin to offer a ninth FE-North Europe service

Hanjin is to add a further Far East-North Europe loop through slots on CMA CGM’s ‘FAL 1’ service, part of the ’Ocean 3’ FE-Europe service offering. COSCO also take slots within the frame of a slot arrange-ment with CSCL while Hanjin’s slots are believed to be under a sepa-rate arrangement with its long standing partner UASC.

The first Hanjin sailing is planned on 25 April from Ningbo on the CMA CGM AMERIGO VESPUCCI. The service launch will bring the number of weekly loops offered by Hanjin on the Far East-North Europe trade to nine.

Far Eastern port of Zarubino – “right place” for the transshipment of containers from China to China

In order to attract 1.2 million transit containers Ministry of Transport intends to make the Far East port of Zarubino as free port zone. This was stated by Viktor Olersky, Deputy Minister of Transport.

«Zarubino is the right place. There is, of course, handling transit containers that come from the north-eastern provinces of China and in the north-eastern provinces of China. This economy works» – leads the “Interfax” the words of the Deputy Minister.

Zarubino Port is located 18 km from the Russian-Chinese border. However, according to Victor Olersky if the free port zone do 100-200 km away from the border, “it will not work, no matter what area are doing.” In this case, the marine infrastructure will require a minimum of funds due to greater depths near the port. The Deputy Minister said that there need to create a regulatory and legal framework for the creation of a free port of Vladivostok, but that does not mean that the status of free port should apply only to Vladivostok. “Discussed up to in order to create a free zone around the Primorsky Territory, but in fact it will be separate areas,” – said Olersky.

For more information:

http://logirus.ru/news/infrastructure/mintrans_pytaetsya_napravit_kitayskie_tranzitnye_gruzy_v_zonu.html

Lithuanian carriers say simplification of entry into Russia, although officially this was not mentioned.

Total inspection of trucks with Lithuanian numbers on the Latvian-Russian border stopped, and now for the delivery of goods from Lithuania to Russia carriers can again choose the shortest route – through Latvia. This is reported by the representatives of the Lithuanian Association of Carriers Linava.

-«There is no official announcement that tighter checks are canceled, but by carriers we hear that it is now easier to enter the Russian Federation» – confirmed portal DELFI member of the Presidium of the Lithuanian Association of Carriers Linava Erlandas Mikėnas.

In November Lithuanian carriers were problems not only at the border, since arriving in Moscow cargoes have also been fully examined. To reduce time costs, trucks with Lithuanian numbers massively changed the route – began to go to Russia through Belarus. Some companies even overloaded cargoes.

For more information:

logirus.ru/news/custom_and_ved/slukhami_litva_polnitsya_vezd_v_rossiyu_stal_proshche_perevozchiki_proveryat.html

Gazprom Neft and Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) have signed a series of agreements to extend their collaboration activity. The documents were signed in Hanoi (Vietnam), in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.

Alexander Dyukov, Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprom Neft, and Nguyen Xuan Son, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Petrovietnam, signed a memorandum to extend their collaboration on joint oil and gas exploration, production and development projects on the Pechora Sea shelf (at the Dolginskoye field and the Severo-Zapadnyi (North West) licensed block). The two parties have agreed to create a dedicated working group of experts from both companies. By the end of October 2015, the parties will form a list of priority oil and gas fields and agree the basic terms of the partnership before further agreements are signed. The projects will be implemented via joint ventures of Gazprom Neft and Petrovietnam, in which the stakes of each party will be negotiated.

In addition, Alexander Dyukov and Nguyen Xuan Son have signed a document outlining key provisions of an agreement allowing Gazprom Neft to acquire a share in the Vietnamese

Dung Quat refinery. During the period set out by the agreement, Gazprom Neft will have exclusive rights to negotiate with Petrovietnam on acquiring its shares in the refinery.

In accordance with the agreement previously concluded between Gazprom Neft and Petrovietnam, Gazprom Neft plans to acquire a 49% stake in the plant which is owned and operated by Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical company. Plans to modernise the Dung Quat refinery will increase capacity from the existing 6.5m tonnes to 8.5m tonnes per year, and improve the efficiency of its technological processes enabling the plant to switch over to producing Euro-5 standard motor fuels. Gazprom Neft’s share of investment in the modernisation project will be proportionate to its share in the plant.

For more information:

www.gazprom-neft.com/press-center/news/1106772/

Chinese investor intends to participate in the construction of Ring Road in Moscow.

JSC “DSK” Autobahn” signed with the Chinese company Jiangsu Baoli Asphalt Co., Ltd. a Memorandum of Intent of joint participation in construction projects of starting complexes number 3 and number 4 Ring Road (Central Ring Road) in the Moscow region.

Businessmen from China are interested in investing in the construction of Ring Road and in general in the working in road construction market in Russia, including the Far East.

In the near future at the invitation of the Chinese company is planned a trip of the representative of “DSK” Autobahn» in the delegation of the Federal Road Agency and the Ministry of the development of the Russian Far East to China.

It is assumed that the conference, organized by the Jiangsu Baoli Asphalt Co., Ltd, will be attended by the Minister of Transport Yang Chuantang, key representatives of financial institutions – Develop Bank, China Construction Bank, funds CITIC, China securities, shareholders of major Chinese companies, lawyers, representatives of the Russian consulate in Shanghai.

For more information:

www.logistic.ru/news/news.php?num=2015/04/02/35/31249265