Sea Legend’s Dubai Tower sails via Northern Sea Route to make first call at Teesport

Sea Legend Shipping’s container vessel Dubai Tower has made the first call at the UK’s Port of Teesport after sailing from Ningbo in East China via the Northern Sea Route, sources indicated on 11 September 2026.

The Dubai Tower is a 1,740-TEU ship operated by Chinese container carrier Sea Legend, and the call formed part of the operator’s China–Europe Arctic Express service. The voyage began at Ningbo port in Zhejiang Province and proceeded along the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic before arriving in the United Kingdom.

Voyage and vessel

The vessel left Ningbo, a major port in East China’s Zhejiang Province, and transited the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic en route to the UK. reports’s item drew on an account in which a Ningbo–Zhoushan Port Group source spoke to the Global Times on Thursday about the movement.

Sea Legend’s Dubai Tower is listed in the report with a nominal capacity of 1,740 twenty-foot equivalent units. The vessel’s inclusion on the China–Europe Arctic Express schedule is cited as the reason for its direct routing via the Arctic corridor rather than conventional south-to-north European services.

Calls and reporting

The report describes Teesport as the UK port at which Dubai Tower called, marking the service’s first recorded UK call in the published account. Sources carried the item on 11 September 2026 and attributed details about the ship’s origin and transit to the Ningbo–Zhoushan Port Group speaking to the Global Times.

The published account limits its factual claims to the vessel’s name, its 1,740-TEU capacity, its departure from Ningbo, transit of the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic and the call at Teesport. No further operational details, transit dates for the Teesport call or comments from Sea Legend or Teesport authorities were included in the supplied report.

The reports item follows reporting lines that relied on a local port group’s communication with a Chinese state-affiliated title, and it presents the voyage as an example of the China–Europe Arctic Express service operating along the Northern Sea Route. The source material quoted in the report referenced the Ningbo–Zhoushan Port Group, as relayed to the Global Times.

The published sequence of facts in the report is concise: Dubai Tower sailed from Ningbo port in Zhejiang Province, transited the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic, and subsequently made a call at the UK’s Port of Teesport. The vessel’s capacity and the service name were given without additional operational commentary.

The account provides a clear factual chain but stops short of explaining schedule regularity, freight types carried or whether the Teesport call represents a one-off visit or an ongoing rotation within Sea Legend’s China–Europe Arctic Express service. The supplied report is limited to the movements and identifying details recorded above.

Sea Legend is named in the reports headline as the operator of the China–Europe Arctic Express service responsible for the Dubai Tower deployment. The supplied factual notes do not include statements from the carrier or from UK port representatives, and they do not provide a date for the Teesport call beyond the publication date of the report.

In summary, the report documents a China–Europe Arctic Express voyage in which the 1,740-TEU Dubai Tower sailed from Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, transited the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic and made a call at the UK’s Port of Teesport, as recorded by reports on 11 September 2026 and drawing on a Ningbo–Zhoushan Port Group communication to the Global Times.