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WSS wins support role in Rotterdam port project

Wilhelmsen Ships Service is to provide ships agency services to Dutch marine contractor Van Oord for the Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project in Rotterdam.

The land reclamation and dredging scheme will create a 1000-hectare extension of the port and industrial zone.  WSS will support up to 14 Van Oord vessels, co-ordinate formalities with port authorities and handle all husbandry issues such as crew changes and sludge and waste disposals.
 
Phase 1 of the project is due for completion in 2013.  As joint contractor with Dutch company Boskalis, Van Oord will employ ten trailing suction hopper dredgers that will transport 210 million m3 of sand from the offshore mining location to the new coastal site.  An additional 30 million m3 of sand will be re-used following dredging of the port basin to -20 metres NAP (Normal Sea Level at Amsterdam) to take the biggest container ships.

In a further success, WSS has won the Middle East 2009 best partner award from the World Cargo Alliance of leading freight forwarders.  The company has been a WCA member since 2003 and topped a poll based on business generation, service delivery and communications capability.

Elsewhere WSS has opened two new offices, including one at Primorsk on the Russian Baltic Sea.  Primorsk oil terminal is at the end of the Baltic pipeline system operated by state entity Transneft and currently handles 65MT of crude coming from the Timano-Pechorskoye oil field as well as West Siberia and the Urals.

“We have been covering operations in this port for some time from our St Petersburg base,” says James Parsons, area director Eastern Europe.  “However, with increasing business in this area, we believe it is essential to be in position to give the level of service demanded by our customers in this important port.”

Meanwhile the company has opened its 20th port office in Australia.  The new facility is in the remote port of Broome – some 2000km from both Perth and Darwin – which serves the booming oil & gas industry off the north-west coast.  It is also a favoured cruise call and Australia’s third largest port for livestock exports.

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