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European logistics operator offers customers more options to transport time-sensitive and valuable goods from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. P&O Ferrymasters has announced the launch of a new multimodal service from Italy to Norway, further expanding its pan-European network of logistics services and offering its customers more options to transport time-sensitive and valuable goods from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia.
The new offering operates between the main rail terminals in northern Italy and three ports in the Netherlands – Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Moerdijk. Goods are then shipped by sea from the Netherlands to three ports in the west of Norway – Tananger, Bergen and Ålesund.
Other ports can be used to minimise road journeys in Norway, saving time and reducing carbon emissions.
From Italy to the Netherlands, goods can be transported by rail or road using 45-foot PW containers, swap body units or tilt trailers, using full truckload (FTL), full container load (FCL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) transport options, the European logistics operator explained.
Customers can also move their heavy and oversized cargo using P&O Ferrymasters’ specialist Project Cargo service.
The launch of the new service follows a series of steps forward by P&O Ferrymasters in the past 18 months, including a state-of-the-art track and trace system and connections between Budapest, Duisburg and Rotterdam, and also between Oradea and Lodz.
Earlier this month, it introduced a new train service from Lovosice in the Czech Republic to Europoort-Rotterdam with the option for onward sea connections to the UK.
Thorsten Runge, managing director of P&O Ferrymasters, commented: “The investments we are making in new equipment, new sites and new capabilities, all have one purpose – to solve supply chain challenges.
“As those challenges become ever more complex, we are using our deep sector knowledge to help customers drive efficiency by eliminating waste in their supply chains. Any customer importing food, wine, chemicals or construction materials into Norway from southern Europe can take advantage of this new cost effective and market leading service.”
The logistics business of P&O Ferries also operates integrated road and rail services which encompass Germany, Spain and Turkey as well as facilitating the onward movement of goods to the UK from Asian countries via the Silk Road.
Source: Lloyd’s
