The port of Zeebrugge, part of the port of Antwerp-Bruges, has witnessed the start of two new rail freight services over the past nine days. A multimodal route for huckepack semi-trailers was established by Neill & Brown, linking the UK to Italy through the Belgian port. The second one is a container connection to the German city of Mannheim operated by Cosco.
Neill & Brown’s service is part of a joint venture with Italian logistics company Sogedim and was launched on 18 August 2025. From the Neill & Brown’s warehouse in Hessle, goods are taken by road to the nearby port of Hull. From there, a ferry takes them to Zeebrugge,where they are loaded on a freight to Italy.
Cosco’s service was launched on 25 August 2025 and links the CSP Zeebrugge terminal to Mannheim. The main customer of the service is Bosch, as our sister publication Flows reported, and the service will be operated by Lineas. From Mannheim, goods can be loaded on trucks for the last leg of their journey in various German cities.