8 | FRIDAY July 10 2009
SHIPPING LINE NEWS
Evergreen rationalises Far East services New option on SA route
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Evergreen head office in Taiwan confirmed to FTW last week that the line was planning a merger of its Far East-South Africa (FAX) and its Far East-East Coast South America (ECSA) service (ESA) by adding SA ports. This will create a Far East-SA-ECSA service. The new service rotation will be: Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas, Durban, Cape Town,
Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Paranagua, Santos, Durban, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai. Evergreen will be deploying seven vessels, and Chinese carrier Cosco four – a total of 11 vessels, due to be sailing on a weekly basis. “The rationalisation that Evergreen and Cosco is implementing will cut back on the dual trade function and reduce the cost of tonnage deployed,” a spokesman told FTW.
New IOI and Mozambique string for Safari service
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July 2 saw the launch by Safmarine of a new string to its existing Safari (Southern Africa–Far East) service dedicated to the Indian Ocean Islands and Mozambique. Safmarine’s SA trades executive Alex de Bruyn told FTW: “Our new Safari 3 string will complement Safmarine's existing service offering and market coverage of southern Africa. Not only will it improve our direct coverage of the niche ports of Toamasina and Maputo to and from Asia, but it will also strengthen our service into SA by taking the Indian
Ocean Islands out of the westbound rotation of the main Safari string where our customers require fast transit times.” Safari 3 is a weekly service linking Asia to Mozambique and the Indian Ocean Islands with direct calls at Tanjung Pelepas, Port Louis, Toamasina and Maputo. Five 1 700-TEU vessels will be deployed, providing for both dry and reefer (refrigerated) cargo, and the eastbound transit time between Maputo and Tanjung Pelepas will be 15 days.
New transhipment option on SA-France route There’s a new route for trade between SA and southern France, as the German carrier, Deutsche Afrika Linien (DAL), introduces a weekly southbound sailing from Marseilles to SA – via a transhipment arrangement. Cargo to and from Marseilles will go via Valencia and Las Palmas onto the company’s core service from Europe to SA on the SA Europe Container Service (Saecs), operated
jointly between Maersk, Safmarine, MOL and DAL. Total transit time is 25 days to Cape Town, 28 days to Port Elizabeth and 32 days to Durban. The first sailing from Marseilles this week (July 7) was the Carmel Ecofresh, with cargo to be transhipped onto the MOL Cullinan, arriving Cape Town on August 1 and Durban on August 8.
K-Line sets up own agency
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In a joint-venture with the Bidvest Group, the Japanese sea carrier, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line), has established its own shipping agency in SA – 51% held by K-Line and 49% by Bidvest. The basic drive for establishing this agency, according to James Reddy, MD of Bidvest-owned Rennies Ships Agency, was that K-Line intends to develop its
services in SA – and in Africa as a whole. “There will obviously be a management structure in SA,” Reddy told FTW, “with members from both groups.” The more immediate plans will be released by the new company as soon as the structure is fully operational, and the proposed strategy finalised, he added.