Uniserve revives the Ellerman brand to form a new British shipping line

Container ship Ellerman City Liners (Photo: Universe)

Container shipping analysts at Alphaliner have provided insight into a new UK carrier. UK-based forwarding company, Uniserve, which chartered a number of ships this year, has gone a step further, establishing a new shipping line called Ellerman City Liners, directly under the Uniserve company.

Ellerman City Liners has begun offering a regular service called GB Express, which ships from China to the UK. The time for full port rotation of GB Express is about 60 days. The GB Express service uses four chartered vessels ranging in size from 2,464 TEU to 5,060 TEU. The ships call Taicang, Ningbo and Dachan Bay in China and Tilbury in the UK.

Alphaliner explained in its most recent weekly report that Uniserve had initially begun chartering just to add temporary capacity, but since the ongoing capacity shortage and port congestion is not expected to ease soon, it decided to organise itself as a carrier for the longer term.

Uniserve is the UK's largest private logistics service provider. Universe's shipping business is called UniOcean, with a new container shipping service under the UniOcean brand.

Container Uniocean (Photo: Prefixlist)

The Elllerman brand dates back to 1892, becoming one of the largest British brands before the Second World War. This brand died in 1991 when it was bought by Andrew War Shipping.

The name Ellerman City Liners was revived five months ago by Iain Liddell, president of Uniserve, who started his shipping career as an Ellerman salesman.

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