BR starts new Sea Freightliner
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• British Rail is to step up its International Container Services on Monday, when a second sailing will start on the Harwich Zeebrugge route.
Operated by one of two specially designed "Sea Freightliner" cellular container ships, the second Zeebrugge service will provide five sailings a week in each direction, leaving Harwich at 4 pm (Mondays to Fridays) and Zeebrugge at 4 am (Tuesdays to Saturdays) with a crossing time of seven hours and a five hour turn round period either side of the North Sea.
Road hauliers handling traffic within a 100-mile radius of Harwich, will find the new
afternoon sailing particularly convenient—containers leaving such places as Bedford, Luton, Northampton, Peterborough and East Anglia, generally in the morning, will arrive at Belgian destinations the following morning.
Quay to quay rates for privately owned containers between Harwich and Zeebrugge are £25, £31 and £35 for 20ft, 30ft and 40ft containers respectively.
British Rail is also operating a threetimes-a-week container service from Harwich to Rotterdam which will be increased to six round trips a week towards the end of the year.