The Port of Hamburg Marketing Authority has announced that two new feeder line services will be scheduled for regular sailings between the Port of Hamburg and Russia.
The services, which start in November, will see shipping company Team Lines using the RUS2 service in the Hamburg, St Petersburg, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Hamburg rotation, augmenting its RUS1 service. The first ship will sail from Hamburg on 7 November.
Meanwhile, the Swan Container Line has also included Hamburg in its weekly schedule for its St Petersburg service, with two 900 TEU container vessels operating a rotation of Hamburg, St Petersburg, Rotterdam, Hamburg.
Shipping company Unifeeder has also announced plans to include the new Russian container terminal in Ust-Luga in its schedule, starting in November, making it the first group to add the new terminal to its services.
Russia is one of the most significant trading partners for the Port of Hamburg in terms of European container transportation, Russia ranking third on the list of the port's overall trading partners, with 276,000 TEU of containers shipped between the ports through the first half of the year.
