New container service from CMA CGM and CSCL starts in Hamburg

A new container service connecting Northern Europe with China and Malaysia has been launched recently.

On August 5, the ‘CSCL Long Beach’ arrived the HHLA Container Termina Burcharkai, Germany. On the occasion of the first arrival of the service, the Head of the Hamburg Nautical Centre, Uwe Claassen, together with Niels Harnack, Managing Director CSCL Hamburg and Bengt van Beuningen (Port of Hamburg Marketing) gave the captain of the ‘CSCL Long Beach’, R Nayyar, the Hamburg Admiralty Coat of Arms. This new joint service of the French-Asia-Line 4 (FAL-4) / Asia-Europe-Express- Service 8 (AEX-8) was launched by French shipping company CMA CGM and China Shipping Container Line (CSCL). FAL-4 / AEX-8 are each deploying four ships from the partner shipping companies, each with a capacity of approximately 9,600TEU. From the AEX-1, CSCL is relocating the ‘CSCL Long Beach’, ‘Xin Hong Kong’, ‘Xin Beijing’ and ‘CSCL Le Harve’. Meanwhile CMA CGM is contributing the newbuild ‘CMA CGM Orfeo’, ‘CMA CGM Pelleas’, ‘CMA CGM Butterfly’ and the ‘CMA CGM Ivanhoe’. The port rotation in the Far East is as follows: Shanghai – Xiamen -Yantian (Shenzhen) - Nansha (Guangzhou) - Port Kelang, from where the service will proceed directly to Zeebrugge and Hamburg. It then returns to Shanghai via Rotterdam. The transit time to Hamburg as of Shanghai in a westward direction is 28 days and only 19 days as of Port Kelang. Due to the vicinity of the important industry and trade location of Guangzhou in the South China Pearl River Delta, considerable cargo volumes are expected right from the start of Nansha port. The low number of ports of call makes it possible for the ships to have a fuel-saving cruising speed with a roundtrip time of 56 days.
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