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the port of Felixstowe celebrates the attainment of the quota 70 million container
In the 2012 port of call it has enlivened a traffic record of 3,7 million teu
August 21, 2013
Today enlivened from when in the 1967-68 English port of call it has equipped of equipments and docks for the traffic of the containers. The container teu that it has marked this goal has been boarded on portacontainer the MSC Bettina of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that it has a cargo ability pairs to 13.800 teu.
The event is celebrated with a ceremony to which the minister of the Transports has participated British, Patrick McLoughlin, that he has remembered as the marine transport constitutes a primary activity for the United Kingdom and as is a field that annually brings to the British economy a value pairs to 14 billion pounds. "The meridian of Grenwich - it has emphasized the minister - literally places us to the center of the world of the shipping and our central time zone means that in a single day we can make transactions with both the parts of the world. Ours important marine history, with primary financial services and with a productive collaboration between government and industry, has contributed to return the marine transport a history of success for Great Britain: the volume of the goods that passes through the ports of the United Kingdom is tripled in the past decade".
In the 2012 port of Felixstowe it has enlivened a traffic record of 3,7 million teu, pairs to beyond 40% of all the container enlivened in the British ports. Clemence Cheng, managing director of Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd., the branch of the Hutchison Whampoa group di Hong Kong who is owner of the harbour port of call, has remembered that for beyond 30 Felixstowe years it has been the main port container of the United Kingdom.
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Today enlivened from when in the 1967-68 English port of call it has equipped of equipments and docks for the traffic of the containers. The container teu that it has marked this goal has been boarded on portacontainer the MSC Bettina of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that it has a cargo ability pairs to 13.800 teu.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
