Service North Africa-Latin America reshaped
CMA CGM has announced the reorganisation of its Sirius service connecting the Mediterranean with the East Coast of South America, effective March 2020.
The new rotation will now concentrate on the Western Mediterranean, the hub ports of Algeciras and Tangiers from where connections to and from Mediterranean ports will be made with the carrier's inhouse mother & feedering network.
Sirius' reorganisation of the weekly service comprises a deployment of one vessel less (six vessels of which two are operated by CMA CGM) instead of the current seven and unchanged transit times in the service for River Plate ports by using CMA CGM’s sister company Mercosul services.
These changes will be effective southbound after the sailing of the m/v "Maersk Lamanai" departing Genoa on 29 March 2020 and Valencia on 1 April 2020, and northbound after the sailing of the M/V "Maersk Lamanai" ex Itaguai on 11 March 2020. (mw)