Atlantic Container line AB (ACL) is teaming up with BG Freight Line (BGFL) and Peel Ports in Liverpool and Dublin to provide a new service that will significantly improve transit times and reliability in both directions between Ireland and North America.
The BGFL Liverpool-Ireland service is being upgraded two weeks from now. Its new Irish schedule will depart from Belfast late on Monday and from Dublin early on Friday to connect with the ACL ship in Liverpool on Saturday, arriving back in Dublin on Sunday and in Belfast on Monday before returning to Dublin for the next Friday departure.
This new service will have transit times 1-2 weeks faster than every other transatlantic service to/from Dublin and Belfast. Most importantly, the reliability will significantly improve as well, due to additional spare time in the schedule.
ACL is able to achieve the faster transits because:
- ACL’s schedule – with Liverpool as first port into Europe and last port out of Europe – gives it the fastest transatlantic service to/from the UK and Ireland. There are no intermediate European ports that add time.
- Liverpool is the closest deep sea port to both Dublin and Belfast. Continental ports are 3-4 times further away. Liverpool requires 1 day less steaming to/from Dublin and 1.5 days less to/from Belfast. Less time/less fuel/less cost/environmentally cleaner.
- ACL and BGFL have agreed to coordinate their schedules to minimize connection time at Liverpool. BGFL will arrive in Liverpool immediately after the incoming ACL eastbound ship and immediately before the departing ACL westbound ship.
- Liverpool is giving ACL and BGFL berth and crane priority on this new service to ensure smooth connections every week.
- BGFL, Marine Terminals Ltd (MTL) in Dublin and Royal Seaforth Container Terminal (RSCT) in Liverpool are all companies of the Peel Ports Group, enabling them to guarantee performance both at the ocean terminals and at sea. ACL has called at the Port of Liverpool for 57 consecutive years, so our relationships with the Peel Ports Group and its companies have a long and productive history.
ACL is exhibiting at Multimodal on stand 5032 and Peel Ports is sponsoring the VIP Lounge on stand Y2000
