H&S Container Line offers in cooperation with Rhinecontainer a 100% reliable Barge Shuttle Service from DeCeTe Duisburg to ECT Rotterdam. 268 TEU Barge "Fixut Maris" serves twice a week  ECT Delta Terminal...

Pascal Lubow is from now on part of our H&S Container Line France Team. The objective is to push the commercialisation of the rail-barge-concept of the intermodal group IFB.

From april 7th Antwerp will be connected via the Rhine Terminal Ottmarsheim to the region Mulhouse / Basel. Zeebrugge benefits also from this neu connection via the huge range of daily train connections between Antwerp and Zeebrugge.

 

The OFE „Ottmarsheim-Flandres-Express“ is a further product of IFB’s intermodal activities. The traction on the main axe will be delivered by B-Cargo and SIBELIT.

 

In the first time OFE will do two round trips per week. From june on three round trips will be offered. Those trains with a very low transit time have a capacity of 80 TEU. The train leaves IFB's Main Hub Terminal in Antwerp in the evening and the containers will already be available next morning in Ottmarsheim. In Antwerp the train will transit via the Main Hub Terminal where it will be included in the NARCON-network of IFB for further distribution to quai 730, 736, 869, 913, 1700 and 1742. In Zeebrugge the terminals CHZ and APMT will be served.

 

For further information please do not hesitate to contact

…in Antwerp:

IFB: sales.corporate@interferryboats.be or via your Key Account Manager

…in Ottmarsheim:

H&S Container Line: booking.rail@hs-containerline.com

 

The Centraal Bureau voor de Rijn- en Binnenvaart (CBRB) now publishes weekly the so-called port stay index for inland container shipping.  

The index shows the average stay per Container (per move) in a seaport.

The data is provided by CBRB members. This should assure an objective view, similar to the gasoil price, published weekly by CBRB

 

Under menu item „Congestion“ we will publish weekly the following figures besides the port stay index itself:

 

1. Reference stay per container move in seaport:
   The sailing lists and freight rates of H&S Container Line base on a port stay per container move of 4:40 minutes in Antwerp and 6:30 minutes in Rotterdam.

2. Deviation between index and reference in minutes

3. Additional time need of our barges in the seaport:
   Since our sailing schedules are designed for the barges and not for single containers, we declare the delay converted on an average barge unit at one seaport call.*
   *) Basis: barge size and average utilisation

example: january

year	week / month	seaport	CBRB-index [mm:ss]	CBRB-reference [mm:ss]	deviation [mm:ss]	Additional time need HSCL-barge [hh:mm]
2008	1	Rotterdam	7:29	6:30	0:59	4h 26min
		Antwerpen	10:19	4:40	5:39	25h 29min
	2	Rotterdam	7:06	6:30	0:36	2h 42min
		Antwerpen	5:47	4:40	1:07	5h 02min
	3	Rotterdam	8:36	6:30	2:06	9h 28min
		Antwerpen	7:31	4:40	2:51	12h 51min
	4	Rotterdam	6:57	6:30	0:27	2h 1min
		Antwerpen	6:56	4:40	2:16	10h 13min
	5	Rotterdam	6:03	6:30	-	-
		Antwerpen	6:50	4:40	2:10	9h 46min
	Jan Æ	Mittel A&R	07:21	5:35	1:44	8h 12min

 

 

Besides the publication of the actual figures per calendar week and month we show the recent development of the additional time need of the barges in a diagram

 

The formula for the surcharge is as follows: The average additional time need of the previous month (i.e. December) is the basis for the decision on the elevation of a surcharge in the following month (i.e. February).  

 

example: january => basis for congestion-surcharge in march

 

 

 

 

We hope to have made a contribution towards an objective picture of the set of problems concerning congestion.