Rickmers-Linie upgrades the service that connects Europe with India



With the insertion of new Rickmers-Linie ships, company specialized in the marine exceptional cargo transport and project cargo, is upgrading own service connects Europe with the Middle East and India and that it is based on the ports of Amburgo, Antwerp, Genoa, Mumbai and Chennai.

The German company is introducing four ships on the route. Draft of the multipurpose Linde and Martin, than Rickmers-Linie it uses for a long time rental, and of the new ships Rickmers Yokohama and Rickmers Tianjin of the type Superflex Heavy MPP 17K, constructed from the Chinese ship yard Xinshun Shipyard Group, than the company it will take in delivery respective this month and the next July. The Tidy ones are introduced in the service to half March.

Each of the ships Linde and Martin, of 12.800 gross capacities in tons, it is equipped with two crane of the ability to 120 tons that can be twin in order to raise 240 tons. The ships Rickmers Yokohama and Rickmers Tianjin, of 17.000 gross capacities in tons, are both equipped of two crane of the ability to 150 tons, gemellabili in order to raise 300 tons, and of a crane of the ability to 80 tons.

The director marketing and sales of Rickmers-Linie, Gerhard Janssen, has explained that the company on this route is finding an increase of the loose question of hold for goods. "For the relation eastbound - it has specified - we preview the boarding of producing iron and steel as main cargo, to which manufactured products that they go from the cranes you furnish and from the mining produced ones to specific equipments for the railway field and the production of energy join. For the relation westbound there are in always greater number not containerizzabili cargo shipments in consideration of the development of the ingegneristiche and productive abilities to India". "Moreover - it has added Janssen - the market is improved also charter for the equipped ships breakbulk of own means of cargo. Only one or two years ago all this that was really available was old tonnage that in fact would have had to be place outside service. Now there are a new series optimal reasonable modern ships available by instalments of hire. After the Rickmers Yokohama and the Rickmers Tianjin we have still four ships to take in delivery and are assisting to a continuous improvement of the market".