The Dutch shipping line W.E.C. Lines has announced a new containerised service from Dunkerque to Russia, operational from Friday 20 February 2009 onwards.

The weekly service will call direct at the Port of St Petersburg and provide reshipping by road or rail to the Russian hinterland (in particular Moscow).

It will also offer a Dunkerque B/L to Ireland (Cork, Dublin, and Belfast), East Africa, the Red Sea, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, and Casablanca.

The service will be represented in Dunkerque by the Agena Company.