Alphaliner Newsletter no 19 - 2013 full

ALPHALINER Weekly 2013 Issue 19
King Ocean has also shifted its
Grenada call (St George's) from
its Lower Caribbean loop to its
upper Caribbean loop and has
added a second Trinidad call to
the Lower Caribbean loop, now
serving Point Lisas on top of Port
of Spain.
The two latter services were purchased
from Bernuth Lines in
September 2012.
PIL/MOL : IOI/IOX
Service Details
Indian Ocean Island Service
Vessels Deployed:
4 x 1,500 teu
Port Rotaon
Singapore, Port Louis, Toamasina,
Reunion, Singapore
PIL : MZS Service Details
Asia‐Mozambique Service (MZS)
Vessels Deployed:
7 x 1,700‐1,800 teu
Port Rotaon
Singapore, Maputo, Beira, Nacala,
Singapore
Limon, Manzanillo (Pan), Barranquilla, Cartagena, Oranjestad, Willemstad,
Maracaibo, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Puerto Limon, Port Everglades.
A third week and third 960 teu ship has been added to the rotation
to cater for the extra calls (SPYROS, shifted from the closed Florida-
NCSA service and adding to the HOHERIFF and VEGA POLLUX). The
'Northern loop' remains unchanged and continues to connect Port
Everglades to Puerto Cortes and Santo Tomas de Castilla on a weekly
basis with a single 966 teu ship (VEGA SAGITTARIUS). La Guaira. also
served with the Colombia-Netherland Antillas service, continues to be
served with the 'Eastern Loop'.
PIL & MOL team up on Asia-Indian Ocean islands trade
Pacific International Lines (PIL) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) will
jointly launch a new Singapore-Indian Ocean Island service (IOI/IOX).
The service will connect Singapore to Port Louis, Toamasina and Reunion.
It will turn in four weeks with four ships of 1,300-1,500 teu,
two of which provided by PIL and two by MOL. Connections will be
offered at Singapore to East Asia and Oceania on the respective networks
of PIL and MOL. The first sailing is planned on 7 June from Singapore.
The new service is based on the Singapore-Indian Ocean legs of the
MOL's IOX and PIL's IOI, which are both superseded by the new service.
PIL streamlines Mozambique service - MOL slots
Further to the launch by PIL and MOL of a joint Singapore-Indian
Ocean Island service (IOI/IOX), PIL is to streamline its Singapore-
Mozambique relay service in removing the Indian Ocean Island calls
from its IOI/IOM service, transforming it into the new MZS service. A
direct call at Nacala is added on top of existing Maputo and Beira
calls.
On its side, MOL is to close its own fortnightly Singapore-Mozambique
service (MZX/IOX) and will continue to serve Mozambique through
slots on PIL's revised Singapore-Mozambique MZS relay service as
part of a slot swap involving MOL space on the IOX service.
The MZS will connect Singapore to Maputo, Beira and Nacala. It will
turn in seven weeks with seven ships of around 1,800 teu, all provided
by PIL. Connections will be offered at Singapore to East Asia and
Oceania on the respective networks of PIL and MOL. The first sailing
of the new MZS is planned on 7 June from Singapore.
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