THE Europe-South Africa SAECS service offered by Maersk, its unit Safmarine, together with MOL and Deutsche Afrika Linien (DAL), will speed northbound reefer cargo by adding an eighth ship while slowing an additional five days on the southern leg.
The 4,822-TEU Maersk Garonne, currently proceeding from the Far East to South Africa will join the service at Port Elizabeth on June 27, reports Alphaliner. The service calls at Rotterdam, Tilbury, Bremerhaven, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Cape Town, Las Palmas and back to Rotterdam.
Once fully underway, the service will deploy five ships from Maersk and Safmarine, two ships from MOL and one from DAL.
LONDON Gateway is about to confirm that the SAECS consortium, which operates services between Europe and southern Africa, will start calling in November.This will be the first confirmed liner service for the new port, which will officially open in the fourth quarter.SAECS consists...
As I have said before NO NEW WORK for London Gateway just robbing from other ports. Cheap poor trained labour = low charges for containers.
Well said !! As a Unite representative working in Southampton we have been asking gateway for a very long time now to offer union recognition which to this point they have shown no interest in doing thus showing that all they represent is a port that wants cheap labour to be their focal point! We pride ourselves on performance born out of quality training and aftercare of it's people , this will not be the case in Gateway as all they are interested in is how cheaply they can get a job done not the people doing that job ! Think on potential customers!
Evergreen quits Thamesport for Felixstowe
UK – SOUTH AFRICA – London Gateway, the UK’s newest deep sea container port which is still under construction on the north bank of the River Thames, has announced that the Southern Africa Europe Container Service consortium (SAECS) has signed up as the first ocean carrier which will use the facilities when freight movements commence in Q4 this year. SAECS is a long established cooperation which, despite a change in membership over time, still consists of Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL), Maersk (together with subsidiarySafmarine) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) working in cooperation.
Although the individual lines prefix the services with their own identification the basic port rotation is currently Bremerhaven, Tilbury, Rotterdam, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban and therefore presumably the lines will switch from the Tilbury call to DP World’s new UK flagship port. London Gateway issued a statement confirming the move, saying:
"London Gateway welcomes the SAECS service decision to choose London Gateway port from November 2013."