DFDS, Danish shipping company signed an agreement Port of Ghent, aiming to increase the number of ro/ro freight sailings between Ghent and Gothenburg, and to strengthen its hinterland anchoring, by transporting containers in a fixed schedule, three times per week aboard inland vessels, in the direction of Antwerp and Rotterdam. Both parties signed the strategic partnership on March 28, in Copenhagen.
In particular, by means of three ships, DFDS is offering six sailings a week on its freight route between Ghent and Gothenburg. During the summer of 2017, the Ark Germania will be added as a fourth ship to the route. This will increase the number of weekly departures from six to eight.
Furthermore, DFDS is expanding its activities in Ghent port with a fixed schedule of three sailings per week for containers on inland vessels. The barges are loaded at the multimodal terminal located at the Mercatordok. From there, a regular container line will be set up with sailings on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between Ghent and the ports of Zeeland Seaports, Rotterdam and Antwerp.
In 2016, the Ghent-Gothenburg service (which also calls at Brevik in Norway once a week), catered for the transport of 2.1 million tonnes of goods.
Source: Port of Ghent