EUKOR visit in Pyeongtaek - 평택 平 澤

I joined Anders, Rick and Stefan visiting EUKOR, one of the largest shipping companies specialized in transporting cars and other rolling cargo in the Harbour of Pyongtaek. We also had the possibility to visit the 2nd Fleet Base and paid our respect to the deceased from the Cheonan.
Pyeongtaek is a city located southwest from Seoul and was founded as a union of two districts in 940 AD, but didn’t receive city status until 1986. Situated at the coast it’s the home to a South Korean naval base and a large concentration of US troops. But more about Pyeongtaek on another occasion ;)
EUKOR invited us to see their operation and to be part of the small ceremony celebrating their newest vessel “Tiger” loading for her maiden voyage. EURKOR transports annually around 3 million cars worldwide and this “little” ship can take 8,200 cars on it multiple decks. It was impressive to hear about the logistics and to see how they load all these brand new cars.

On the way to the loading ramp of the vessel Tiger

Walking our way up, instead of taking the elevator, to the bridge.

Some of the cars waiting to be loaded!

Martin Malmfors and Anders Grenstad congratulating the captain of the Tiger and his crew.

The first engineer of the Tiger telling about the capacity of the ship.