IN JANUARY OF this year, CMA CGM became part of the Eurosal Consortium serving the trade between North Europe and the west coast of South America on a weekly basis, local agents, International Shipping (Intership) has announced.
Member lines of Eurosal are CMA CGM, P&O Nedlloyd, Hapag Lloyd, Hamburg Sud and CSAV. The fleet is comprised of eight multi-purpose container vessels with a nominal intake of approximately 2,000 2,100 TEUs.
In January, the CMA CGM Chili one of the newest addition in the Eurosal service - made its inaugural call on the Port of Kingston. The CMA CGM Chili, which is navigated by Captain Rainer Stange, has the capacity to accommodate 2,500 TEUs and is driven by a 22 knots horsepower engine and will dock at Jamaica's shores once per month.
The vessel is about 205 metres in size and flies the Cyprus flag. The vessel will also be making runs to ports such as Cartegena, Mazanillo, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe, Manya and Callao, among others.
CMA CGM is consistently adding to Kingston as their transshipment hub in facilitating additional cargo movements to and from Central America, Europe, South America, Far East, US East Coast and the Eastern Caribbean.
Representatives of Intership marketing manager, Sonia Williams and sales representative, Jasmin Farmer toured the new vessel recently and presented the captain with welcoming gifts.
The Marketing Manager said she was delighted about this new development, which has afforded customers the opportunity of trading within seven additional ports namely, Bilbao and Zeebruggee in Europe and Buenaventura, Guayaquill, Callao, Arica and Valparaiso in South America.
