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About OOCL UK
About OOCL in UK
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The UK is comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and has a culturally diverse population of approximately 63 million people. The UK is a member of the EU but has not joined the Euro zone; local currency is the Pound Sterling.

Although the UK's capital city is London, OOCL's office is in Levington, about 80 miles to the North East of London, near Ipswich.

Container Throughput Per Annum ('000 TEU)

Most of our trunk vessels call at Southampton. The other port we use are Liverpool, and to a lesser extent Greenock, Grangemouth and Belfast. Figures below are total port throughputs in TEU for all lines:-

Port

2009

2010

2011
Liverpool 589,000 662,000 640,230
Southampton

1.385 m

1.567 m

1.588 m


Operational Coverage

Our excellent road haulage capabilities allow us to offer a high quality collection and delivery service to all towns and cities across the country. We have a fleet of 60 Southampton-based vehicles which are on exclusive long-term charter to OOCL, 5 in Birmingham, 10 in Manchester and 10 in Daventry. These are supplemented with another 35 trucks nationally, giving us approximately 95 vehicles at our disposal. Particular management attention is paid to ensuring timely arrival to meet customer needs, and pro-active communication is facilitated by the latest in satellite navigation and tracking technology. We are able to offer electronic PODs and satellite vehicle tracking via the web. Click on the icon below to download in PDF format further details on our haulage capabilities.

Download Truckcom PDF

We also have our own train, the OOCL Express, a daily service in each direction between Southampton and the two railhead hubs of Manchester and Leeds. This covers the M62 corridor. As well as taking cargo off the road for the benefit of the environment, the service guarantees daily freight capacity which can otherwise be difficult to find. We also serve Daventry in the Midlands by rail.

Another strength of OOCL in the UK is our SIX feeder between Belfast, Greenock and Southampton, which facilitates fast connections with deep sea trunk vessels.
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