Shipper P&O Ferries carried more freight between Zeebrugge and Tilbury in 2017 than in any other year since the 10-year history of the route.
The integrated ferry and logistics company carried 185,908 freight units between January and December last year, up 4.3 per cent on the year before.
'These outstanding volumes show the growing popularity of the route from the continent to Tilbury, which we expect to rival Calais-Dover as a gateway to Britain within ten years,” said P&O Ferries’ head of freight for the North Sea, Nick Pank.
'Freight customers like the route because we can load and unload our ships in just four hours, thereby enabling them to get out of the port gates and on to the road quicker than if they travel with any of our competitors.
“The time it takes for our customers to drop off and collect units at the port of Tilbury is also exceptional – for a trailer it is 20 minutes and for a lift unit it is 30 minutes.'
P&O Ferries operates two ferries between Zeebrugge and Tilbury, the 20,000 tonne sister ships Norstream and Norsky, which sail 24 times a week.
The company also sails from Zeebrugge to Teesport and Hull and has onward connectivity to northern Spain and Gothenburg via services in partnership with P&O Ferries.
Logistics division P&O Ferrymasters owns a rail terminal in the Romanian city of Oradea, which facilitates the onward movement of goods to Britain from Asian countries via the Silk Road.
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