Grand Alliance increases ship sizes calling at Charleston to 5,400 TEU
2012 03 22
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GRAND Alliance shipping lines are increasing the allowable vessel size that calls at Charleston, South Carolina, starting with the docking of the 5,400-TEU OOCL California.
Grand Alliance members, Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL are now deploying larger vessels on their Atlantic Express Service (ATX), a North Europe service that calls at the North Charleston Terminal on a weekly basis.
The service is now deploying four larger, postpanamax ships with capacity of 5,400 TEU in place of the previously used panamax ships, according to the South Carolina Ports Authority.
Charleston is the last US port outbound on the service. "Charleston is a natural gateway to North Europe, given the businesses with European ties that have established in South Carolina," said Jim Newsome, president and CEO of the South Carolina Ports Authority.
Charleston said it leads the European market among US south Atlantic ports, with 36 per cent of the port's container volume associated with North Europe.
"Large vessels are not only being deployed in the trade between Asia and the US east coast," Mr Newsome said. "This represents the second carrier grouping to deploy postpanamax container vessels in the trade between the US and North Europe."
Following the Charleston port of call, the OOCL California is scheduled to make stops at Rotterdam, Hamburg, Le Havre and Southampton. Zim, ACL and Hamburg Sud also participate in the ATX service.
Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News
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