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Great White Fleet
Europe

www.greatwhitefleet.com

Liner Shipping Company belonging to the Chiquita group.
GWF (EUROPE), Ltd operates three distinct weekly commercial services between central America to Europe and vice versa.

GWF (EUROPE), Ltd allows to book commercial cargoes (i.e. non-Chiquita cargo) on the Westbound Services (commercial backhaul) and the Eastbound Services (commercial fronthaul).

The core business is carrying fronthaul mainly Chiquita bananas as an all-season's product in coolroom or in 40'8'6" and 40'9'6" reefer containers, but other perishable goods (3rd party bananas, melons, mangoes, vegetables, etc.) will be carried as well as commercial year-round cargo.

As a counterpart to these GWF (Europe), Ltd offers weekly three separate backhaul services giving shippers and forwarders not only a weekly but a fast and reliable service, which supports the transport by sea of almost every type of cargo to Central America.

From:
  • Antwerp, Belgium
  • Bremerhaven, Germany / Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Vado & Civitavecchia, Italy / Aegion, Greece / Setùbal, Portugal

    The service is suitable to take breakbulk cargo including heavy lifts, containers, rolling stock and temperature controlled and/or climatized cargo in coolroom or in containers.

    Great White Fleet, thereby hangs a tale...

    Great White Fleet offers :
  • High quality ship and containers
  • Reliable vessel schedule
  • Independent carrier status
  • More than 100 years of experience in the region
  • Customized solutions
  • Focus on quality
  • Competitive rates
  • Quality and reliability
  • Fast reliable service

  • Equipment : 40 ft high cube, 40 ft reefer and 40 ft NOR (non-operating reefer), 40 ft High cube reefer and 40 ft high cube NOR (non-operating reefer).

    Great White Fleet offers:
  • Fast transit times, and competitive rates
  • Fixed weekly departures on thursday from Antwerp, to :

    Transit:
    Santa Marta (Colombia) 10 days
    Puerto Limon (Costa Rica) 12 days
    Turbo (Colombia) 15 days
    Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) 19 days
    Puerto Cortes (Honduras) 24 days

    Other ports sub inducement.

    Delivery address in Antwerp:
    Belgian New Fruit Wharf (BNFW)
    Kaai 212 - Rostockweg 1
    B-2030 Antwerp.
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