The Tiger, one of Wilhelmsen's Wilhelmsen wellenius, made his first scale in Santander, and as usual in these cases, the director of the Port, Cristina López, delivered a metopa commemorating the captain.
The Tiger, with 232 meters in length, belongs to a series slightly lower than the Mark V, the largest ro-ro ships that sail the world. It is a generation of ro-ro ships designed for efficient transport and for the manipulation of project loads, light and heavy vehicles and non-containerized merchandise, with regular services around the world.
The Tiger operator is Willenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AB, formed by Wallenius and Wilhelmsen shipping companies, which began to operate independently. The first began to climb in Santander with RO-RRO ships 17 years ago, and the second operated with conventional ships on sporadic scales since the late 60s.
Until 2013, Willenius Wilhelmsen had been making a monthly scale in the port of Santander; In the last months of 2013, they became two monthly scales, closing the year with 17 scales. In 2014 it has begun operating three monthly scales, and, depending on how traffic evolves, it can end four scales/month.
It is expected that in one of the scales of Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the port of Santander will receive a Mark V, a series of four ships, three of which: Parsifal, Tysla and Salome, have already climbed in the port.
Wilhelmsen Logistics's general agent of Wilhelmsen in Spain is the Maritime Avge, S.A. agency, based in Barcelona, and the commercial representation is Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Ibérica, S.L, which has recently opened its headquarters in Barcelona. In Santander the Naviera agent is children of Basterrechea S.A.
Photo foot: Cristina López, director of the port of Santander, and Fernando Basterrechea, representative of children of Basterrechea, together with the captain of the Tiger during the delivery of the Metopa.