A new shipping route from the east coast of South America into the port of Tilbury has been created as the shipping industry recovers from the rigours of recession.
Tilbury Container Services Ltd (TCS) has secured the new service from Maersk Line which will arrive into the terminal each Wednesday. Maersk is TCS’ biggest customer.
The service calls at the ports of Paranagua in Brazil, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay), Santos and Pecem (Brazil), and then on to Tilbury.
Transit times range from 18 days from Buenos Aires, 14 from Santos and just nine days from Pecem to Tilbury.
Melons, mangoes, top fruit, citrus and stonefruit are among the main lines set to benefit from the move.
Around 50 per cent of Tilbury’s business comes from Latin America and the port already receives two services a week via MSC and Hamburg Süd.
Tilbury’s business development manager James Leeson told FPJ: “For us it re-enforces our position as the main port in the UK for Latin America and the southern hemisphere. It re-enforces our links with Brazil in particular which obviously has huge growth potential.
“There has been quite a lot of turbulence in the market since the recession hit. We have seen a number of co-operative agreements between competition. It is now moving back to where we were two years ago.”
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