CMA CGM Launches New TransAtlantic Service
The CMA CGM Group announced that it will launch a new container shipping offering between North America and North Europe at the end of May 2015.
The group will expand its existing transatlantic services with the launch of the NEW VESPUCCI service and the addition of a new port of call in Baltimore to its LIBERTY SOLO service. With these additions, the group’s combined North America and North Europe services will cover 15 ports of call.
Marc Bourdon, President of CMA CGM (America) LLC, a subsidiary of CMA CGM said, “With the addition of the NEW VESPUCCI service and the new port of call in Baltimore, CMA CGM’s North America and North Europe offering will be unmatched and we will be better placed to capitalize on the strengthening of the U.S. economy and continued growth in trans-Atlantic trade. With our continued focus on reliability and transit times, we can provide our customers with a unique and market-leading offering.”
The NEW VESPUCCI service will launch in the last week of May and will deploy fifteen 4,500-TEU vessels on the following rotation: Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Le Havre, Southampton, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, New York, and Antwerp. The service will be operated in cooperation with Hamburg Sud and UASC.
The LIBERTY SOLO service, which includes four of CMA CGM’s 1,800 to 2,000-TEU vessels, will be expanded at the end of May with an additional call at the port of Baltimore. Baltimore, that used to be covered through intermodal connections, will now be called directly by the CMA CGM Group. The rotation of the service will be: Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Le Havre, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, and Rotterdam.
The NEW VESPUCCI service and expanded LIBERTY SOLO service will further enhance CMA CGM’s other existing services that connect Europe and North America. This includes the VICTORY BRIDGE service deploys six 4,500-TEU vessels on the following rotation: Le Havre, Anvers, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Charleston, Miami, Veracruz, Altamira, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Le Havre. CMA CGM’s existing offering also includes the PAD, which deploys six 2,500-TEU vessels, five of which are chartered by CMA CGM, on the following fortnightly rotation: Rotterdam, Tilbury, Dunkirk, Le Havre, New York, Savannah, Philadelphia, Rotterdam.