Hapag-Lloyd, Canada to Mediterranean Unchanged
Hapag-Lloyd will continue the service between Montreal and ports in the Mediterranean provided in cooperation with Senator Lines without any change, offering customers weekly departures. Eight ships, two of which are contributed by Senator, are currently deployed. The service runs from Montreal to Fos, Genoa, Salerno and Cagliari as well as Valencia Leghorn, Cadiz and Lisbon. The vessels deployed have capacities of between 1,000 and 2,000 TEU. In a notice to the trade it is said, that Hanjin Shipping, as parent company of Senator Lines, is presently investigating the possibility of continuing the Canada-Mediterranean service in conjunction with Hapag-Lloyd.
Grimaldi Lines: First Departure from Hamburg
As the first vessel to be used in the new Euro-Aegean service of the Grimaldi Lines shipping company, the RoRo ship Grande Sicilia was dispatched at Hamburg's Unikai Terminal on 27 December 2008. Together with its sister ship the Grande Italia, the Grande Sicilia forms part of a new service offering fortnightly departures from Hamburg in the first instance. The ports of call are Setubal, Valencia, Leghorn, Civitavecchia, Salerno, Piraeus, Beirut, Lattakia (only when carrying sufficient cargo), Gemlik and Alexandria.