In view of the foregoing, you will therefore note that we now offer the fastest transit times from Ireland, ahead of the transhipment type services offered by competitors to main overseas ports by 8/11 days.

As you are no doubt aware, modern large container vessels load and discharge at approximately 4/5 ports, so in order to make a success of our direct services, we had to make sure our consol containers ex Ireland were loaded at, if possible, the last loading port in Europe, and over the years, this has been achieved. Again, by making sure this happens, we havem for the second time, reduced average transit times by another 3-4 days.

With our Direct Express Services your cargo is loaded and sealed into our consolidated container in Ireland and shipped through to the destination port. Therefore, additional handling en-route is avoided giving less chance of damage, pilferage or loss. Although we recommend to all our customers that they should make provision for marine insurance should any unforseen incidents occur.