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Transfennica will cancel the service Bilbao - Portsmouth - Zeebrugge because of the new norms EU on the fuel
the line - it has emphasized the company - has always recorded a remarkable increase is of the transported volumes that of the economic results
November 28, 2014
An other company of navigation announces a modification to own operating programs because of the next introduction of the new norms of the European Union based on which they give to next 1° January the ships employed in areas SECA (SOx Emission Control Areas), that is Baltic Sea, Sea of Nord and English Channel, will have to use fuel with sulfur the maximum tenor of 0.1%. Draft of the Transfennica of the Dutch group Spliethoff, that the end of the next month of own service of Freeway of the Sea has communicated the abolition beginning from that connects the ports of Bilbao, Portsmouth and Zeebrugge. The company has explained that the effectiveness of the new legislation will involve an increase of the costs of the fuel and this will provoke a return to the road of up to now transported rotabili means on ship.
Transfennica has remembered that the marine line Bilbao - Portsmouth - Zeebrugge is inaugurated in 2007 and from then has recorded a remarkable increase is of the transported volumes that of the economic results.
Transfennica has specified that the abolition of this service will not have some impact on the other lines realized from the company neither on the activities of the division Transfennica Logistics that will continue to operate own intermodal services from and for Spain and Portugal and that among other things will increase uses she of the railway modality thanks to the opening the next January to Barcelona of according to warehouse with office.
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