EUCON to Introduce New 45ft Refrigerated Containers

30th June 2015

#NewEUCONcontainers – EUCON, one of Irish Continental Group's container shipping divisions have extended their container range capabilty with 30 new 45ft refrigerated containers.

The new containers which arrived last week are to be introduced into service from the first week of July. This will increase the total number of reefers in the fleet from 120 to 150 units.

Serving the EUCON container range are a fleet of 10 chartered Lo/Lo containerships.

The 'feeder' containerships vary from 400 TEU to 1,000 TEU capacity and they link Belfast, Dublin and Cork with Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

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Jehan Ashmore

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Jehan Ashmore is a marine correspondent, researcher and photographer, specialising in Irish ports, shipping and the ferry sector serving the UK and directly to mainland Europe. Jehan also occasionally writes a column, 'Maritime' Dalkey for the (Dalkey Community Council Newsletter) in addition to contributing to UK marine periodicals.

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