MSC Sofia Celeste first neopanamax to sail to London's Tilbury Dock
Time：2016-08-19
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There the Mediterranean Shipping Company`s (MSC) 8,819-TEU Sofia Celeste tied up after transiting the expanded Panama Canal for the first time deployed on a service linking the west coast of South America to the east coast of North America and northwest Europe.
The Port of Tilbury is London`s biggest port serving a market of 18 million people living within 120 kilometres. The LCT is the UK`s largest reefer terminal, which came in handy given the 2014-dottage Sofia Celeste can carry 1,462 TEU reefers.
"The MSC Sofia Celeste marks a change for Tilbury`s customers offering much improved links to the growing South American and transatlantic market,?said LCT chief commercial officer Ross McKissock.
According to MSC`s commercial import general manager Natasha Griffin, the shipping line aims to further develop services of this kind in future.
The Sofia Celeste is the first to be deployed on MSC`s new South America west coast-US-northwest continent service, which also visits ports in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, the Bahamas, Philadelphia and then Rotterdam.
Tilbury handles a wide range of cargo with specialist expertise in paper and forest products, containers and ro-ro, grain and bulk commodities, and construction and building materials.