The G6 alliance members have announced that they are extending their Asia-North Europe Loop 7 service to include a call at the Polish hub port of DCT Gdansk, just months after construction commenced on a second container terminal.
The weekly service, commencing in August, is a major coup for DCT Gdansk’s deepwater terminal, which will now have its second alliance customer and, importantly, six more ocean carrier customers to add to the 2M grouping of Maersk Line and MSC.
The new win also comes against a background of fierce inter-port competition between DCT Gdansk and the ICTSI-operated Baltic Container Terminal in nearby Gdynia. The Grand Alliance, one of the two VSAs that formed the G6, was on the point of launching a call at BCT when the global financial crisis hit in 2009, and the plans were shelved.