CMA CGM ship makes first call at Mobile

1/5/2009 10:04:44 AM

CMA CGM (America) said its containership Blue Whale has called at the recently opened Mobile Container Terminal on Friday, Jan. 2.   The Blue Whale is one in a series 5,100 TEU vessels owned and operated by CMA CGM that comprise the weekly PEX 3 service from Asia to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The service includes calls at Shanghai, Xiamen, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Houston, Mobile, Norfolk, Savannah, Charleston and Kingston.   It joins Zim Line as a customer of the Mobile Container Terminal, which is 80 percent owned by AP Moller-Maersk affiliate APM Terminals North America and 20 percent owned by the Terminal Link division of CMA CGM. The Choctaw Point facility opened in October 2008.   American Shipper

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