Port of Southampton to Lose Call by Maersk/ MSC Asia-Europe Service
By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar)– The 2M partnership of Maersk and also MSC is to leave the UK port of Southampton.
It has actually revealed it will certainly go down the phone call at the nation’s second biggest container portal by the Asia-Europe AE1/Shogun solution the service providers collectively run.
A spokesperson for Maersk informed The Loadstar: “The reason for withdrawing the Southampton call was because we could not offer reliable service with the number of port calls in the rotation. Thus, in order to improve our service quality, we decided to take the call out.”
The last 2M vessel to call at Southampton will certainly be the 19,500 teu MSC Diana, which is readied to leave Colombo on 28 February and also, according to Maersk’s timetable, get to Southampton on 21 March.
The spokesperson verified that this would certainly finish the line’s straight solutions right into the port.
” AE1 was the only Southampton straight requireMaersk Line We will certainly supply a solution right into Southampton making use of a third-party run feeder.
Maersk stated that “until further notice” Southampton- bound freight would certainly be continued feeder vessels out of continental ports to Felixstowe and also trucked from there, or carriers can reserve freight on the just recently introduced feeder solution in between Rotterdam and also Bristol.
Just prior to Christmas, Maersk and also European feeder professional BG Freight Line collectively introduced a regular string in between both ports, releasing a 1,000 teu vessel, which was stated to be bring in passion from “a wide range of trades, including forest products, alcohol and retail”.
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