Hamburg Süd: WAMS service covers now also Hamburg
Hamburg Süd shipping company launches new direct link between Hamburg and North America’s West Coast
The Hamburg Süd shipping company has expanded its 2010 launched WAMS liner service from North America’s West Coast to the West Coast of Middle America (including Mexico and Cartagena in Columbia). The new version service covers also Hamburg and other ports in Northern Europe. Thus the company responds to the growing demand on transatlantic routes. Container traffic with North and Middle America grew almost 16 per cent in Hamburg in 2010, compared to the previous year. „Expanding the WAMS service to Hamburg, Hamburg Süd offers a rapid, direct connection with comprehensive port coverage between Northern Europe and North America’s West Coast. The included two hub ports in Tangier and Cartagena also makes available the best connections to the Caribbean basin, South America’s East and West Coast as well as to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent“, says Uwe Gaede, Director Area Germany, Marketing & Sales of the shipping company. In the frame of the expanded service ten vessels with a capacity of each 1,700 TEU are deployed; eight of them being provided by Hamburg Süd and two by CCNI. The complete rotation of the service takes 70 days and includes the following ports: Hamburg, Le Havre, Cartagena, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Oakland, Long Beach, Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Puerto Quetzal, Cartagena, Tangier, Rotterdam, Tilbury and Hamburg. Quelle: LogEastics |