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New liner services reinforce container traffic between Hamburg and Russia
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Starting in November 2011, two new feeder line services will be scheduled for regular sailings between the Port of Hamburg and Russia. The shipping company Team Lines will be using the RUS 2 Service in the Hamburg - St. Petersburg - Hamburg - Bremerhaven - Hamburg rotation to augment its RUS 1 service handled by its own vessels with capacities of OOCL for containerised shipping to this key market region. The first ship will be sailing from Hamburg on 7 November. The Swan Container Line has also included Hamburg in its weekly schedule for its St. Petersburg service. On the Hamburg - St. Petersburg - Rotterdam - Hamburg rotation, two 900 TEU container vessels link Germany's largest seaport with Russia. In addition, the shipping company Unifeeder has announced plans to include the new Russian container terminal in Ust-Luga in its schedule starting in November. Accordingly, the shipping company is the first to add the new terminal at the gates of St. Petersburg to its liner services. Ust-Luga was set up as a complement and an alternative to the terminal partly operating at maximum capacity in the port of St. Petersburg. Moreover, this region of the Baltic Sea is less prone to becoming ice-bound in winter. Source: transportweekly
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