The Container shipping arm of Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk Group, Maersk Line, is offering a new direct at Abidjan on the Ivory Coast from February 20.
The service is being created by adding a weekly port of call in Abidjan to one of the carrier's Far East to West Africa loops, called the FEW2 service.
To offer a port of call in Abidjan, Maersk Line said it is amending its two existing Far East to West Africa services, FEW1 and FEW2.
The new port rotation for the FEW2, featuring the Abidjan stop, will be: Port Kelang (Malaysia), Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia), Walvis Bay (Namibia), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Apapa (Nigeria) and Walvis Bay.
This means that Maersk Line is dropping from the current FEW2 rotation, which calls at Togo's Lome and Benin's Cotonou as well as adding a stop in Walvis Bay, from where containers can be transhipped to Angola.
The calls at Lome and Cotonou will in future be served by the revised FEW1 loop, while the Walvis Bay stop will be dropped from this string.
The new FEW1 port rotation will be: Nansha (China), Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, Lome, Tema (Ghana), Cotonou, Apapa, and Pointe Noire (Congo, Brazzaville).
The shipping line added in the release that the first vessel to be deployed on the new FEW2 rotation will be the Maersk Inverness, which is scheduled to call at Tanjung Pelepas on January 28 and Abidjan on February 20 on the westbound leg of the journey, voyage number: 0801.
The first westbound sailing for the amended FEW1 rotation will be undertaken by the Santa Alexandra, which is due in Nansha on January 23, voyage number: 0803.
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