Hamburg Süd is expanding its services this year between the U.S. West Coast and destinations as far apart as Australasia and North Europe.
In February it started a new all-water service from West Coast ports to and from North Europe. On Feb. 20 the “Cap Colville” departed Seattle with calls in Vancouver, Oakland and Long Beach and then to the company’s hub in Cartagena, Colombia, offering one-stop service to Rotterdam, Hamburg, Tilbury and Antwerp via Cartagena transshipment.
The Cartagena hub also makes possible additional service connections to all ports in the Caribbean as well as the East Coast of South America.
On its fortnightly Pacific Northwest – Australia-New Zealand loop, Hamburg Süd is upgrading the size of the four vessels on the loop to 2,500 20-foot equivalent units capacity from 1,700 TEUs, a process which will be completed by the end of the second quarter.
One of the new containerships on the Australasia PSW service (California ports), the “Cap Bon,” called at San Francisco/Oakland recently. With a nominal capacity of 2,500 TEUs and 440 reefer plugs the “Cap Bon” is representative of the type of new vessels being deployed on the service from the west coast of North America to “down under.”
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