With the commissioning of some 50 45 ft reefer container , shortsea shipping troupe WEC Lines introduce the marijuana cigarette container mart for the first time this year . " The focus within our company has always been on ironical freight including supermarket - concern products , as well as ponderous cargoes such as coffee dome and teatime . But with this new service , we can also render the smart green groceries sector with our logistics services , " say Sjaak Melissant .
For the general managing director who previously influence at Visbeen Transport and Coolboxx , return to the new green goods sector feels like coming home . " For instance , I really missed the Fruit Logistica in recent years . I ’m look forward to doing my bit there again on behalf of WEC Lines . "
" WEC cable start 50 year back and originally really focalize on East Africa . In late years , the focus has branch out to the Mediterranean region , add Portugal , Spain , the Canary Islands and Morocco , among others , as important destinations , " Sjaak excuse . " For model , we put up fresh produce importers a direct service between Agadir with Portugal , Spain and the UK . This service offers further connectedness to the Netherlands , France and Belgium through which Moroccan tomato plant and mandarins , among others , find their style to European supermarket . In doing so , we work intermodally , for example , we also have a rail link to Poland , among others , and thrust ahead connections to Germany in Moerdijk . "
" Although the temperature - controlled tape drive market place is raw to WEC Lines , we do have a lot of cognition of reefers internally . The advantage is that we can now provide our customer a wide cooking stove . Until recently , customer require reefers during certain period of the year , but they could not book them with us . We can now provide that . The new 45 ft spliff containers are all equipped with a State Department - of - the - artistic creation ( galvanic ) infrigidation system to accurately maintain the temperature within a range of -30ºC to +30ºC , ensuring the unity of temperature - sensitive or perishable shipment throughout the transportation process . We wanted to be exhaustive and put a raft of feat into track - and - trace right away . After all , you often only get one hazard to examine yourself , and you have to make good habit of it , " says Sjaak . Meanwhile , WEC course already has a second set of stick on ordering thanks to high-pitched requirement from its customer .
WEC Lines ' fleet consists of some 14 vessels , 11 of which are owned , affix by three fixed charters . " With these , we service all interface from Morocco to the Canary Islands . We recently sum the Bilbao - Dublin - Liverpool servicing to our regular merchant vessels routes , " Sjaak says . For transport to East Africa , WEC Lines ' enlistment - rise ' on the regular services of parent organisation MSC with its own WEC containers on board . " With our own ships , our own containers and local representation in no less than 17 countries , we have everything in - house to unburden client . For example , we also have offices in Egypt and Kenya , where I see a lot of potential in reefer transport for floriculture , among other things . "
" We come from a hard market , because volumes are somewhat lower everywhere . The costs in the grocery store have come up considerably , only the transport cost has not in reality risen along with it and rather decline somewhat . But we are now seeing positivistic sign that the market is clean up . For instance , refrigerated conveyance from England to Spain has been function well from the start . When it come to refrigerated raptus to the Netherlands , it persist open up for us . After all , we have a mass of competition from road transport and those prices go in all centering during the twelvemonth . As an intermodal supplier , we apply a twelvemonth - round Leontyne Price , which is much more constant ; in some period , this is less interesting in terms of costs . Nevertheless , I am confident that with these stable route we provide a nice alternative to route exaltation , " Sjaak articulate .
For more information : Sjaak MelissantWEC LinesTel : +31 10 4 913 306[email protected]www.weclines.com
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