OPDR launches Casablanca express from Felixstowe

Hamburg based Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR) is now offering its customers a seven-day transit direct container service to Casablanca from the UK port of Felixstowe, which its UK agent says is “unique”.

OPDR will provide the link deploying five similar capacity vessels departing from Felixstowe every Saturday, arriving at Casablanca on the following Saturday.

Hitherto carriers were only offering a transit time of 10 - 16 days with transhipment either via Rotterdam or Lisbon.

John Good Shipping, the liner’s UK agent, said that the new schedule would offer shippers a “fast, efficient and cost-effective” route into north Africa.

Steve Whitfield, OPDR line manager at John Good said: “This new service makes the OPDR service unique as we are not aware of any other line calling either directly or even on a weekly basis, or indeed offering such a quick transit time.”