North Europe – South America WC Service – New “SW” Service – Hapag-Lloyd

In our continued efforts to provide you with high value service, we are pleased to announce our new SW Service. We will consolidate all our present services from North Europe to South America Westcoast. The new SW Service is planned to commence on February 8, 2017 in Valparaíso, Chile with the northbound departure of our new and one of the most modern ships deployed in this trade M/V Valparaíso Express (voyage 701N). Consequently, the first southbound sailing begins on March 7, 2017 in Rotterdam with the same vessel, M/V Valparaíso Express (voyage 710S).

The new SW Service, the only dedicated service in this trade and covering the major markets in North Europe, the Caribbean and Westcoast South America, will be a weekly service with fixed scheduled arrivals and departures. Hapag-Lloyd, as the main vessel provider will operate four out of nine most modern and homogeneous vessels with a capacity of approx. 10,500 TEU and 2,100 reefer plugs each. In addition, the new SW Service will deploy also two dedicated feeder vessels covering Paita in Peru and Guayaquil in Ecuador, synchronised with the mainline vessel in Buenaventura, Colombia.

The new rotation of the service will be as follows:

The new SW Service will offer you mainly direct connections and highly competitive transit times in both directions:

Transit Time (in days) – Southbound

Transit Time (in days) – Northbound

*) via Feeder connecting at Buenaventura

We will provide you in due course with further and important information about the new SW Service.

We are looking forward to continue the valuable relationship and the reliable service we have been providing to you.

Editor’s Note: A similar press release was made by CMA CGM.

Source: Hapag-Lloyd (LF)

Source: Hapag-Lloyd