The 11,000TEU CMA CGM Vela has started making calls at the Yantian International Container Terminal in South China, after being deployed on the French shipping line's French Asia Line 1 (FAL1) service.
YICT states that it is continuously improving its facilities and operating rate in order to meet the requirements of such mega-sized container ships. A total of eight ships are being used to operate the FAL1 service, which calls at Yantian every Saturday. It takes 36 days to complete a round trip on the following port rotation of: Shanghai - Hong Kong – Yantian – Singapore - Port Klang – Southampton – Hamburg – Rotterdam - Zeebrugge - Le Havre. The terminal operator said that CMA CGM would add more mega-vessels to the FAL1 to boost the service's shipping capacity. Three other weekly Asia-Europe services operated by CMA CGM also call at YICT, namely, the FAL2, FAL3 and FAL4. YICT added that in order to meet manufacturers' growing shipping demands during the weekends, CMA CGM has increased the number of its weekend Asia-Europe shipping services to three.
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