Euro Marine Logistics NV (EML) is a European short sea

roll-on/roll-off Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, Trailer (vehicle), trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their o ...

shipping and logistics company, with headquarters in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...

. It was originally jointly owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Höegh Autoliners, before MOL acquired full ownership in December 2019.

History

In 1990, Euro Marine Carrier B.V. (EMC) was established in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

by three partners,

Nissan Motor Car Carrier Nissan Motor Car Carrier Co., Ltd. (Abbreviation: NMCC; ja, 日産専用船株式会社, Nissan Senyōsen Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese roll-on/roll-off shipping company owned by Nissan Motors (60%) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (40%). Overview Th ...

(51%), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (24.5%) and Höegh Autoliners (24.5%). In 2011, after a change in share ownership, the assets of EMC were transferred to Euro Marine Logistics, which was based in Wemmel,

as a venture between Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Hoegh Autoliners. Today the company specializes in the domestic maritime transport and distribution of cargo such as automobiles, trucks, trailers,

Mafi roll trailer A roll trailer is a trailer platform that requires towing by a powered vehicle. It is commonly used for the transport of heavy static goods and materials in the maritime shipping industry. Roll trailers are similar to shipping flat racks contai ...

s, heavy construction machineries and further types of rolling freight.

Fleet

EML operates a fleet of fifteen ships with capacity of 33,000 CEU on six shipping routes. It serves 27 commercial ports in 17 different countries, operating in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...

and

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and fr ...

. The company transported 950,000 CEU in 2015.

Environment

Short sea shipping is the most ecological and cheapest mode of transportation. EML use

ultra-low-sulfur diesel Ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) is diesel fuel with substantially lowered sulfur content. Since 2006, almost all of the petroleum-based diesel fuel available in Europe and North America has been of a ULSD type. The move to lower sulfur content allo ...

and is part of the Trident Alliance.

Facts and accidents

On 5 December 2012, EML suffered the worst accident up to date, when a vessel of its fleet, the

MV Baltic Ace MV ''Baltic Ace'' was a Bahamian-flagged car carrier, that sank in the North Sea on 5 December 2012 after a collision with the Cyprus-registered container ship ''Corvus J''. Built by Stocznia Gdynia in Poland, the ship had been in service since ...

, sank in the

after a collision with the Cyprus-registered

container ship A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermoda ...

''Corvus J'',Cargo ship sinking after North Sea collision, rescue under way
Reuters, 5 December 2012. and 11 Crew members died. On 3 December 2015, EML operated ''mv City of Rotterdam'' collided with another

vessel - the ''Primula Seaways'', reporting severe hull damages and requiring urgent repair work. The vessel was departing

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

when the accident happened. The harbour pilot and Captain on board were both investigated, and finally given a four month prison sentence.

References

Ships gallery

File:City of Sunderland - Douglas IMO 9046356.jpg, mv City of Sunderland File:City of Barcelona - Douglas IMO 9046368.jpg, mv City of Barcelona File:City of St. Petersburg w MSR Gryfia.JPG, mv City of St.Petersburg File:City of Rome (3).JPG, mv City of Rome File:Ship City of Amsterdam (2).jpg, mv City of Amsterdam File:CMP Malmo port 20130511 0510 (8728628653).jpg, EML ship

External links

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