Waterway shuttle links Dunkirk with Lille and Dourges

Nord Ports Shuttle is a local waterway service operated by a public/private partnership composed of Dunkerque-Port, Compagnie Fluviale de Transport (CFT), the Grand Lille Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIGL) and the Flanders Terminal.

Starting last week, the Nord Ports Shuttle (NPS) waterway container inland shuttle provides a twice-weekly link between the Flanders Terminal (TdF) of Dunkerque-Port, Lille Container Terminal (LCT) and Lille Dourges Container Terminal (LDCT).

It operates on a quay-to-quay basis, without road transport. The operating conditions of the service have been designed to allow the emergence of a competitive multimodal transport offer without the return of empty containers to the port of origin, by creating depots for empty containers in the inland terminals of Lille and Dourges which are open to all logistics operators.