Maersk Line is changing feeder loops that serve US Gulf ports the north coast South America after dropping Kingston, Jamaica for Manizanillo, Panama, as its Caribbean hub, reports AXS-Alphaliner News.
Kingston now becomes a feeder destination on a loop from Manzanillo to the Cuban ports of Progreso and Puerto Cortes using a 400-TEU ship.
Maersk's north coast of South America and east coast of South America (NCX) service will drop Port of Spain, Trinidad and Santa Marta, Colombia while a call has been added at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Point Lisas, Trinidad, and Santa Marta will reportedly be connected to Manzanillo with a newly revised north coast of South America feeder service.
The north coast of South America and Puerto Rico feeder service will in future connect the hub port of Manzanillo to Puerto Cabello, Port of Spain; Oranjestad in the Netherlands Antilles island of Aruba, and Santa Marta. This service will deploy two 1,700-TEU ships, instead of three as before.
The report noted that the Europe-Central America and Caribbeanservice (CRX) and the transpacific service AC-1 have already stopped calling at Kingston.
It said Maersk Line is still using Kingston as a secondary hub on the service it provides to the Guyanas through slot buying container space on a Seafreight service, which calls at Kingston and Port of Spain en route to Paramaribo, Suriname and Georgetown, Guyana.
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