{"id":1827,"date":"2023-04-24T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2023\/04\/24\/discover-the-benefits-of-the-transport-corridor-between-the-uk-and-poland\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:01:00","slug":"discover-the-benefits-of-the-transport-corridor-between-the-uk-and-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2023\/04\/24\/discover-the-benefits-of-the-transport-corridor-between-the-uk-and-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the benefits of the transport corridor between the UK and Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Discover the benefits of the transport corridor between the UK and Poland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the UK and Poland are smoothly connected in both directions. By combining the shortsea and rail networks, we guarantee a smooth, safe, reliable and sustainable transport corridor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poland and the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both countries are important trading partners for each other. The UK mainly exports construction materials and pharmaceutical products to Poland. In the other direction, mainly food, chemical products and consumer goods leave for the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its extensive shortsea network and various shortsea operators, the port offers excellent flexibility and short transit times to shippers and freight forwarders operating on this corridor. Ships from the United Kingdom and Ireland arrive at our port daily.<\/p>\n<p>All shortsea terminals have their own intermodal rail facilities. This is how they guarantee smooth and congestion-free transit. Daily rail shuttles between the port and Poland provide reliable and congestion-free connections with sufficient capacity.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the goods benefit from a wide range of value-added services in Antwerp and Zeebrugge, which saves any additional shipments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More sustainable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trains use six times less energy than trucks and emit only one-fifth the amount of carbon dioxide. Each railcar takes a truck off the road and also avoids additional traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/media.portofantwerpbruges.com\/m\/435ba2eb39d2e490\/original\/PUBLICATIE_Efficient-transport-corridor-between-the-UK-and-Poland_2023.pdf?_gl=1*ptyhyg*_ga*NDA5ODI2NzU2MS41Njk1MTcyMzI2*_ga_DTC7EP43ET*MTY4MTQ5MDQwMi4yNzMuMS4xNjgxNDkwNjI4LjUxLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read it here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Article by the Port of Antwerp-Bruges<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Antwerp-Bruges are sponsors of Coastlink 2023 taking place on <strong>3 &amp; 4 May<\/strong> in Liverpool. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/buy\/2023-delegate-bookings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book now<\/a><\/strong> to join representatives from the Port of Antwerp-Bruges at this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the UK and Poland are smoothly connected in both directions. By combining the shortsea and rail networks, we guarantee a smooth, safe, reliable and sustainable transport corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-coastlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}