Keel laying A2B Vision
Today we, A2B-online, celebrated the very special moment of keel laying of our first new-build vessel, the A2B Vision. The keel laying took place at the modern shipyard SEDEF in Tuzla, Turkey. We may call this event very unique as it was the first time in our young existence of the company to see here the start of the first out of two sisters being built. Our clients, our colleagues, our shareholders and not in the last place, our team effort have made this great momentum possible.
The A2B Vision will be an ultra modern hybrid-methanol driven low emission container vessel, especially designed for the shortsea market and able to carry over more than 10 sorts of shortsea containers. Our clients will be able to have their dedicated container transported by A2B-online to and from the United Kingdom.
The A2B Vision is expected to set sail for our trading area by the end of this year. The second ship, the A2B Progress, is expected three months later.
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Recap of Coastlink Conference 2025
This conference featured presentations on current market developments around ports, terminals and especially shortsea. It also covered topics such as sustainability and the use of alternative fuels for seagoing vessels.
Kyra Lemmers (Commercial Manager Logistics) of Port of Moerdijk (also gave a presentation putting the Port of Moerdijk on the map as an important shortsea hub in Europe. This presentation also highlighted A2B-online and all our services.
The next Coastlink Conference will be organised in Immingham in May 2026!
Transport Logistic 2025 (June 2-5 Munich)
From 2 to 5 June 2025, the world’s largest exhibition for logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management will take place in Munich and of course A2B-online will be there!
Are you a professional in the transport and logistics sector?
Then this international exhibition is the place to be to meet relationships, make new business connections, gain knowledge and so much more! You are cordially invited!
Save the date!
Together with our co-exhibitors, we are already making the necessary preparations and look forward to meeting you in Munich. So be sure to save the dates in your agenda and follow us for news and more information!
Read more about Transport Logistics
Expansion: 5 weekly sailings London Thamesport - Moerdijk
As of today, 14 March 2025, A2B-online is adding a 5th weekly sailing to its scheduled service between Moerdijk and Hutchison Ports London Thamesport. Specifically, this expansion now means an arrival on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday at London Thamesport and an arrival on every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Moerdijk. For A2B-online customers, this means more stability, capacity and flexibility.
Partners delighted with this expansion:
- Mark Taylor, Director, London Thamesport
“London Thamesport offers its customers a service tailored to their specific demands and we are delighted that A2B-online continues to go from strength-to-strength. Demand in the short-sea container market continues to grow as shippers look for a reliable and predictable service offering which is something we deliver by working closely with our customers and maintaining a sharp focus on service-delivery.”
- Michael van Keulen, Managing Director of A2B-online
“We have been working with London Thamesport for 11 years. Their dedication, flexibility and focus on operational excellence match our values and have helped drive our growth over that time. We look forward to building on our relationship and continuing together to deliver a consistent and high-quality service to our customers.”
More information
Contact Sales Department A2B-online Container B.V.
Tel. +31(0)168 334300 |salescontainer@a2b-online.com
First sailing barge Moerdijk - Duisburg
On February 3, 2025, the moment had finally arrived. Together with our partners WEC Lines, Tailwind Shipping Lines, and Danser Group, we were present for the maiden voyage of the barge ms TRANQUILO to Duisburg. This barge connection is launching as a scheduled service with two departures per week between Moerdijk (CCT) and the Ruhr area (DGT Duisburg Gateway Terminal).
Euphoria
After extensive preparations and a hectic period, it was fantastic to celebrate this wonderful expansion of the Port of Moerdijk as an intermodal hub with all those involved—complete with cake and champagne. At the same time, we toasted to the promising new partnerships that have been established with the launch of this new service. We look forward with confidence to working with these partners in the future!
Thank You
A heartfelt thank you to our partners and everyone involved, especially those who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this milestone possible.
More Information About This Barge Service
For more details and contact persons, see our previous news update from January 20.
A2B-online in latest edition‘𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲’
Our colleagues Ger Quist and Michael van Keulen have contributed to ‘Inside Marine’, one of the leading maritime business to business media platform for over a decade. The extensive interview with them can be read and viewed (as a shareable brochure) in the magazine published today.
A2𝘉-𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵-𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘢. 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘒𝘦𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯-𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘥.
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Thanks
Thanks to the team at “Inside Marine’ for the great end result and the fine way this article was realized.
New barge service Moerdijk - Duisburg
From the 3rd of February 2025, A2B-online in cooperation with WEC Lines, Tailwind Shipping Lines and Danser Group will offer a new barge connection. This new service, named MDC (Moerdijk – Duisburg Corridor) and operated with the ms TRANQUILO, will start up with 2 sailings per week between Moerdijk (CCT) to Duisburg (Duisburg Gateway Terminal, DGT) and seamlessly connects to existing (short sea) connections from Moerdijk.
’By providing this new service,
we are connecting the ports of Moerdijk and Duisburg
and offer our customers a reliable, sustainable and competitive alternative
to road transport on this important corridor.’
Michael van Maurik
General Manager Transport & Logistics A2B-online Container B.V.
Frequency of departures Moerdijk – Duisburg Corridor
Duisburg is where the new terminal DGT is located from which it operates sustainably. Every Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening there is a barge departure from Moerdijk to this new terminal; every Tuesday and Friday evening the barge departs in the opposite direction. The aim is first to provide a stable service with a reliable scheduled service and to increase the frequency of departures in the future.
Intermodal hub Moerdijk
With this new service, the Ruhr area is now also accessible from Moerdijk via water. Like the recently launched A2B-online Express that operates between Moerdijk and Northern Italy, this new scheduled service also means an expansion of the Port of Moerdijk as an intermodal hub. At the same time, this barge connection also contributes to making the road network on the Moerdijk-Ruhr corridor more sustainable and less congested.
Partnerships with WEC Lines, Tailwind Shipping Lines and Danser Group
- With 14 vessels, 17 local offices and a worldwide agencies network, WEC Lines is a Dutch shipping line connecting Southern and North-western Europe, North & East Africa, and the Red Sea with high-frequency, environmentally friendly container shipping solutions.
Read more about WEC Lines >
- Tailwind Shipping Lines is a German shipping line and subsidiary of Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG and was founded in July 2022. They connect with their services Asia and Europe, originally exclusively in the non-food sector for Lidl, but Tailwind now also offers capacity for other customers.
https://tailwind-shipping.com/en
- Danser Group has been a leading intermodal operator for over 40 years. With an extensive fleet of owned and chartered inland vessels, Danser has established itself as a prominent service provider in inland shipping, maintaining a strong position in Northwestern Europe.
Read more about Danser Group >
These 3 companies proved to be perfect partners for A2B-online in realizing this barge service.
WEC Lines & Tailwind Shipping Lines, like A2B-online, are fulfilling their customers’ needs with this service. For Danser Group, the operator of this barge, this service means a valuable extension of its own network. The cooperation in realizing this new barge service offers perspective to intensify the collaborations in the future and further expand the service supply.
For more information, please contact us:
A2B-online Container B.V.: +31(0)168 334300
Sales department: salescontainer@a2b-online.com
- Michael van Maurik, General Manager Transport & Logistics (mvmaurik@a2b-online.com)
- André Mast, Commercial Director (amast@a2b-online.com)
- Nathan Burrell, Manager UK Sales (nburrel@a2b-online.com Mobile: 07384 118583)
First departure A2B-online Express
Last Saturday, 11 January, the first fully loaded A2B-online Express with 41 containers successfully departed from Moerdijk /CCT (Netherlands) to Melzo/ RHM (Italy). Effective immediately, this train runs 3 times a week between Moerdijk and Melzo v.v. with a planned expansion to 4 roundtrips from March 2025.
Advantages
- Direct shortsea connections UK
- Optimisation of the entire supply chain
- Efficient connection Netherlands-Italy
- Faster lead times
- Sustainable alternative to road transport
- Reliable partner in international freight transport
Not just a train but a milestone!
For A2B-online, this new intermodal product is not just a train but a milestone! We thank all stakeholders; the ‘customers on the train’ for their support and trust both in this challenge and in A2B-online. Special thanks to all (Partner LTE Netherlands B.V., CCT, our own IT, sales and operations colleagues and all others directly involved) who made this milestone operationally possible.
Filmshot of the first departure A2B-online Express
Watch the video of departure of the A2B-online Express
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More information
Contact: A2B-online Container B.V. Tel +31(0)168 334300
– Michael van Keulen, Managing Director (mvkeulen@a2b-online.com)
– André Mast, Commercial Director (amast@a2b-online.com)