Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL to cooperate with MSC on North Atlantic service
July 27, 2009 by Splatty
Filed under Seafreight
SLCS (St. Lawrence Co-ordinated Services) members, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd, announced they will rationalize their jointly-operated SLCS1 North Atlantic service/ GEX1 with the Canadian Gateway service of Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), known as the Montreal Express 1.
SLCS (St. Lawrence Co-ordinated Services) members, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd, announced they will rationalize their jointly-operated SLCS1 North Atlantic service/ GEX1 with the Canadian Gateway service of Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), known as the Montreal Express 1.
The first sailing of the new service, which has the objective of providing better overall port coverage for our customers, will be the OOCL Belgium ETD Antwerp on July 30, 2009.
The partners will deploy 4 vessels: OOCL Belgium (2,800 TEUs), Hapag-Lloyd’s Mississauga Express (2,800 TEUs), MSC Suez and MSC Jordan (both 3,000 TEUS).
Port rotation will be Montreal, Liverpool, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Le Havre, Liverpool and Montreal.
Source – Hapag-Lloyd Press Release
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