New t ward Partnership with Eurogate

We’re delighted to be able to announce a new partnership between t ward and Eurogate, a partnership that will enable us to serve our customers even better.

Teaming up with Eurogate means that t ward will now be able to offer clients a weekly road freight service to selected destinations in Eastern Europe. Please see the schedule for details of where we will be able to serve.

Eurogate is a well-established group of freight forwarding companies which operates across eight European countries. Founded in 1989, the company has an impressive road-freight forwarding background; it started out as a joint venture between the UK forwarder, MS Shipping, and the Hungarian state-owned road-transport company Hungarocamion.

Eurogate specialises in shipments between Western-European, Central-Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union, and its FTL coverage includes countries in these regions.

• Services to and from the UK:Three departures per week to Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Slovakia.
• Two departures per week to Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Austria.
• Weekly departures to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

OVERLAND GROUPAGE SERVICES

Export Schedule

Destination	Departures	Transit time/day(s)	Close Off Days
Hungary / Budapest	Tuesday/Friday	4	Monday/Thursday
Poland / Warsaw	Tuesday/Friday	4	Monday/Thursday
Czech Rep/ Prague	Friday	4	Thursday
Slovakia/ Bratislava	Friday	4	Thursday
Romania/ Bucharest	Friday	7	Thursday
Bulgaria/ Sofia	Friday	8	Thursday
Slovenia/ Ljubljana	Friday	4	Thursday
Bosnia/ Sarajevo	Friday	8	Thursday
Croatia/ Zagreb	Friday	7	Thursday
Serbia/ Belgrade	Friday	9	Thursday
Latvia/ Riga	Friday	5	Thursday
Lithuania/ Vilnius	Friday	5	Thursday
Estonia/ Tallinn	Friday	5	Thursday
Russia/ Moscow	Friday	7-10	Thursday
Ukraine/ Kiev	Friday	7-10	Thursday
Uzbekistan/ Tashkent	Friday	26 - 30	Thursday
Kazakhstan/ Almaty	Friday	26 - 30	Thursday
Azerbaijan/ Baku	Friday	26 - 30	Thursday
Armenia/ Yerevan	Friday	26 - 30	Thursday
Georgia/ Tbilisi	Friday	26 - 30	Thursday
Turkey/ Istanbul	Friday	10	Thursday
Iran / Tehran	Friday	21	Thursday

Burntisland – Ports we serve

The Port of Burntisland, between Kirkcaldy and North Queensferry, is one of the oldest natural harbours on the Forth, and provides transport and distribution by sea, rail or road all over Scotland. The renewable energy sector along with an upturn in coastal shipping has provided something of a revival for the port, which is also home to Burntisland Fabrications and Briggs Marine.

 In the 21st century Burntisland can enable access for barges of 300ft by 90ft, and the port has been a major Scottish port for centuries, a position which was boosted in 1847 with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway which ran from Burntisland north to Lindores and Cupar. Three years later, the world's first roll-on/roll-off rail ferry service was launched, and was crossing the Firth of Forth from Burntisland to Granton. The service was operational until the Forth Bridge was opened in 1890 when the Forth Bridge opened.

The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company at Burntisland West Dock was founded as an emergency shipyard in 1918, and introduced ‘Burntisland Economy’ steamship in 1929. In the Second World the yard built three Loch class frigates: HMS Loch Killin (K391), HMS Loch Fyne (K429) and HMS Loch Glendhu (K619). The shipyard closed in 1969.

In 2014, Forth Ports Limited and Fife-based Scott Group announced investment into a proposed regeneration of the eastern end of the port. Forth Ports and Scott Group, supported by a Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) grant from Scottish Enterprise, promised to invest around £2.5million in the development of the site, with a view to creating what they called a ‘state-of-the-art pallet manufacturing facility’ – which would include upgrades to the electricity supply, a refurbishment of the existing building and other areas, upgrades to road infrastructure and relocation and installation of new equipment.

For information about Burntisland and other ports we serve at t ward shipping limited, contact us and we’ll be delighted to advise you.