In Port News 22/04/2015
Besides 2M and the CKYHE Alliance, Hapag Lloyd is attracted by the growth of Transatlantic volumes as well and will open a new weekly service, its sixth, between North Europe and the US East Coast.
The AX4 offers connection between North Europe – Savannah and New York and vice versa. The first westbound vessel, the chartered Ulysses with a capacity of 2500 TEU, is being handled in Rotterdam April 30. Transit time with Savannah / New York is 10/14 days, eastbound15/11 days. (1)
Trade on the up
In 2013, about 46 million tonnes of containerised cargo was transported between Northwest Europe and North America. Rotterdam’s market share amounted to twenty percent. At the beginning of 2015, twelve of the eighteen transatlantic container services called at the port of Rotterdam. Transatlantic trade is on the up. Other shipping companies, in addition to 2M, are also increasing their frequency/capacity or launching services including, partially, new ports of call.
