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ALPHALINER Weekly Newsletter 2009-Week 16
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Tanjung Pelepas, Jeddah, Port Said, Gioia Tauro, Genoa, Fos, Gioia Tauro,
Damietta, Port Said, Salalah, Port Kelang, Singapore, Lianyungang. The
service will be operated with nine vessels of about 8,500 teu, eight of
which provided by Maersk and one by CMA CGM (The newbuilding CMA CGM
CENDRILLON).
CMA CGM will revamp its Asia-Adriatic PHEX/LEVEX within a new
partnership with Maersk Line through a Vessel Sharing Agreement, with
each company providing four vessels of 6,500 teu. The new service ''will
offer faster transit times to Trieste, Koper and Rijeka''. It will rotate as
follows : Shanghai, Busan, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Tanjung Pelepas, Port
Kelang, Port Said, Damietta, Trieste, Koper, Rijeka (by feeder), Damietta,
Port Said, Jeddah, Port Kelang, Singapore, Shanghai
MCC develops own Eastern Russia feeder
MCC Transport, the APM-Maersk intra Asia arm, has launched its own
Busan-Eastern Russia feeder services, covering Vladivostok and Vostochny,
using the chartered 698 teu OSG BEAUTEC and OSG BOSSTEC (the latter
sub-chartered from Chinese carrier Onto Shipping).
On this run, MCC Transport / Maersk used to either buy slots or to deploy
ships on an ad hoc basis from time to time. The two new services connect
at Busan with long haul services of Maersk and MCC. Maersk-MCC is also
offering direct Shanghai-Russia services through slot buying on the FESCO.
In December 2004, APM-Maersk had acquired SCF Oriental Lines from
Sovcomflot Logistics, a carrier which offered Korea-Russia services using
the Vostochny gateway for oncarriage of boxes on the Trans-Siberian
Railway.
As for Onto Shipping, it is to replace the OSG BOSSTEC by the 672 teu JIN
MAN YANG on its Lianyungang-Qingdao-Japan service.
MACS streamline Europe – S Africa service
MACS Maritime Carrier has removed two ships from its Europe-South Africa
multipurpose and breakbulk service. The two ships are the 26,000 tdw/850
teu conbulkers STELLENBOSCH and ALGOA BAY. The service is now run with
five multipurpose units, two of which are fitted with ramps.
STELLENBOSCH and ALGOA BAY, both 31 years old, are actually sent on the
Southern Africa-Mexico-USA 'Gulf Africa Line' (GAL - a joint service of MACS
and Dannebrog) on which they replace two 38-year-old conbulkers of
30,000 tdw / 1,100 teu, earmarked for scrap: the BLUE MASTER and
SILVERFJORD.
These two pairs of ships are veterans of the South Africa trade, carrying
containers and machinery as well as granite blocks exported from South
Africa. MACS is awaiting a series of 37,000 tdw / 2,000 teu newbuildings
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