CMA CGM News – Launching TURAF EXPRESS service connecting Turkey, Malta and Algeria – July 2023

As there are always better ways to address a market, CMA CGM – Short Sea Lines Division is pleased to announce the launch of the TURAF EXPRESS service as from WEEK 29 between TURKEY | MALTA | ALGERIA. This new weekly service (starting ex Aliaga on July 17th, 2023) – on top of proposing additional weekly service to serve […]
Containers – Hapag Lloyd scraps 3 more ships – June 2023

With a fleet of 241 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 1.7 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. Hapag-Lloyd has sold three elderly ships for demolition, sticking to a plan outlined in last month’s earnings call. Singapore’s Wirana Shipping Corp, which acquires old vessels for recycling, […]
CMA CGM News – Reshuffle TMX 3 service connecting Turkey, Italy, Slovenia & Malta – May 2023

As there are always BETTER WAYS to address a market, CMA CGM – Short Sea Lines Division is pleased to announce the reshuffling of our TMX 3 (Turkey Med Express) service as from WEEK 20 between TURKEY | ITALY | SLOVENIA | MALTA. This revised weekly service (starting ex Izmir on May 17th, 2023) – on top of addressing Adriatic and Central Europe […]
CMA CGM News – Scanning Fee in Congo – 11.05.2023

CMA CGM informs its customers that for cargo bound for Congo, in accordance with Decree 7666 of April 2021, CMA CGM Shipping Lines will collect the Scanning fee from its customers as follows: Effective June 10th, 2023 (BL date): Port: Pointe Noire, Congo & final destinations on the Congolese territory Perimeter: Import Cargo: all cargo Amounts: EUR […]
Local Shipping – Bunkering Tanker VALLIERE

One of the Swedish Built ships around is the bunkering tanker VALLIERE. She was built at Asiverken, Amal, Sweden in 1962 as the HAMNSJO and was renamed to ALPHA AV DONSO as one of the smaller bunkering tankers in Scandinavia. She was […]
Casualties – Medevac by French Navy after MSC RACHELE explosion – June 2022

On Tuesday 21st June, 2022 around 0900 hrs the Regional Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in Toulon, France received a distress call from the 334 metre containership MSC RACHELE that due to engine room fire , followed by an explosion 3 injured crew members needed a medical evacuation (Medevac). She was sailing between Naples and the […]
Haifa Port – May 2022 Movements

The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel’s three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and […]
Haifa Port – April 2022 Movements

The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel’s three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and […]
CMA CGM News – Shanghai Reefer Imports Updates – 08.04.2022

In consequence of the pandemic control management measures undertaken by the local authorities in Shanghai, we observe massive impact on both trucking movements velocity and available trucking capacities. These factors have a major impact on import cargo that suffer drastically slower pick up time and therefore excessively stretched dwell time which results in high stress […]
Casualties – CMA CGM RABELAIS explosion – 06.04.2022

On Wednesday 6th April, 2022 around 1230 UTC the 2010 built container ship CMA CGM RABELAIS while underway from Singapore to India, suffered an explosion, followed by fire, in western Malacca Strait between Andaman islands and Banda Aceh Sumatra. The Master immediately ordered a firefighting operation and the fire was soon controlled and remains so. […]