CLdN will connect Santander with Liverpool from 19 June Santander, 5 June 2020.- The Luxembourg company CLdN will connect Santander with Liverpool and Dublin from 19 June via a weekly hotline. This connection means that the port of Santander will offer its customers direct service of trailers and, for the first time, containers to England and Ireland. The Ro-Ro service of trailers, semi-trailers, containers, static mafi merchandise and project loads will depart Santander every Friday at 8 p.m. to arrive in Liverpool on Sundays at 18:00 and Dublin on Mondays at 10:00 a.m. The return journey will depart Dublin on Tuesdays at 6 p.m., stop in Liverpool on Wednesdays at 16:00 and arrive in Santander every Friday at 2 p.m. The Victorine vessel, which is 180 metres long, can accommodate 170 semi-trailers. In this way CLdN, which has increased its activity by 500% since it started operating in Santander at the end of 2016, adds Liverpool and Cork to the services it already offers from Santander to Dublin (Ireland), Killingholme and London (Britain), Esbjerg (Denmark) and Gothenburg (Sweden). CLdN will have, with this new service, four weekly stopovers in the Port of Santander. The advisor of Innovation, Industry, Transport and Commerce, Francisco Martín, has appreciated the commitment to the Port of Santander of CLdN which, in the last four years, since its arrival in 2016, has increased its volume of goods in the Cantabrian installation five times, has increased the number of lines, also the size of the ships, and now puts this new direct connection with Liverpool in length. All this, he has emphasized, without any public assistance. The councillor referred to the possibilities of logistical communication with Europe that this route offers to the Cantabrian business fabric and its area of influence. It also indicated that the opening of this new line is an indicator of the "good health" of regional transport and strengthens the port of Santander as a "first magnitude logistics reference". For his part, the president of the Port, Jaime González, stressed the importance of having regained the maritime connection for goods with Ireland in two ports, Cork and Dublin, as well as a new destination on the West Coast of Great Britain, Liverpool. For González, the increase in destinations and scales implies a "very valuable" multiplication of the Ro-Ro maritime supply that is being developed in the port of Santander, in fulfillment of the objectives of the strategic plan approved four years ago. The president of the APS appreciated the confidence that CLdN demonstrated in its commitment to Santander, based on the high performance of the services provided by its port community, further noting that the ongoing projects follow "a favorable degree of maturation", despite COVID, both in terms of the investment and development of capacity and infrastructure expansion plans in the port , how to the next arrival of new high value-added activities. *CLdN in Santander. CLdN Group operations began in the Port of Santander at the end of 2016 on the North Bank by including two weekly stopovers with the existing Portuguese line between Rotterdam and Leixoes. That is, CLdN decided to add to the Port of Santander as a new stopover of its Iberian service con-ro -Portugal (Leixoes), Holland (Rotterdam), Benelux - and added a new vessel to this service. Thus, the Port of Santander entered the rotation, offering 2 direct stopovers per week to Rotterdam, Holland. CLdN decided on Santander as it is a leading RoRo traffic port on the Atlantic facade, with direct connection, via toll-free motorways, and regular rail services to central Spain. Since then, the volume has increased and the CLdN Group made the decision to allocate specific ro-ro vessels three times a week exclusively for the realization of port operations between Spain and Zeebrugge. This change in routes was important advantages for Santander as the connection time with northern Europe was reduced and the capacity of the santander boat that can now occupy it in its entirety was increased when it had to be shared with Leixoes before. Santander also benefited from increased connections to the British and Nordic markets by doing so via Zeebrugge. *CLdN ro-ro SA. He is a specialist in Short Sea RoRo, operating 29 modern vessels, offering more than 100 weekly voyages between the ports of Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, London, Killingholme, Dublin, Cork, Gothenburg, Esbjerg, Leixoes and Santander. CLdN Group, founded in 1928, based in Luxembourg, is dedicated to multimodal transport and logistics. The Group's main activities include European ro-ro shipping (CLdN ro-ro SA), European port operations (C.RO), European door-to-door services (CLdN Cargo) and worldwide bulk shipping (CLdN Cobelfret). It also operates in river traffic in Europe with its modern fleet of barges and facilitates rail connection throughout Europe, thus providing customized multimodal solutions.