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Geest North Sea Line News

12 Dec 2003

New Vessel Sharing Agreement for Iberia

Geest North Sea Line, together with its Spanish partner Odiel Bilbao SA, announced more details relating to their new shortsea joint venture, first made public in mid November. The two companies have entered into a vessel sharing agreement with feeder specialist X-Press Container Line to provide twice-weekly sailings between Bilbao, London (Tilbury) and Rotterdam, commencing January 2, 2004. Sailings will be offered from Bilbao every Wednesday and Friday. The mid-week sailing arrives Tilbury on Saturday allowing UK deliveries on Monday while the Friday sailing arrives Monday evening to allow Tuesday deliveries. Departures are every Sunday and Tuesday.

07 Apr 2004

Geest North Sea Line Strengthens Sales Team

European intermodal operator Geest North Sea Line strengthened its sales team in Germany. Jürgen Reinke has been promoted to the position of General Sales Manager for Germany and will be based in Geest's Duisburg office effective 1 April, 2004, and Frank Possel has been appointed as Regional Account Manager, located in Hamburg. Reinke joined Geest in 2002 as Regional Account Manager for the Ruhr area. His early career was in the Hamburg freight forwarding community followed by sales positions with RoRo ferry and trailer operators PTI Portbridge, Norfolkline and DFDS. Possel has joined Geest from Seawheel. "Central and Southern Germany, especially the Ruhr region, have always been important markets for Geest but we now find that we are increasingly competitive in Northern Germany too.

22 Apr 2002

Geest Launches New Service

By the end of this week Geest North Sea Line launches a new container service linking Grangemouth in Scotland with Rotterdam. The service runs twice a week, once direct and once via Teesport. The frequency of the Teesport service will be increased from three times to five times a week. Geest now offers direct sailings on four ports (also on Hull and Tilbury) in England and Scotland. Via this multi-porting concept it can minimize trucking distances in the UK. More information: www.geest.nl.

13 Dec 2002

Geest North Sea Line to Introduce New Ships

Geest North Sea Line will introduce two 804TEU vessels into service in the course of 2004. Intermodal Transport & Logistics 2002 (ITL2002) in Rotterdam. been used in the North Sea shipping trades before. intermodal transport. and the UK East Coast. capability, usually on deck. tank container traffic required us to look afresh at ship design. associated. shipbuilders. between - in an optimal way.