CMA CGM's existing SAX service (Asia-Panama-US East Coast Service) has been redesigned to include calls in Balboa, Panama eastbound and westbound as well as Jacksonville, Florida Eastbound.
The SAX Service is now deploying eight 3,800 TEU vessels - three operated by CMA CGM and five by the New World Alliance - with the following rotation: Ningbo, Shanghai, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Balboa, Manzanillo, Jacksonville, Savannah, New York, Norfolk, Balboa, Ningbo.
In Balboa, the SAX service connects with the dedicated Andex service, solely operated by CMA CGM, offering new destinations out of Asia and out of the US East Coast to the West Coast of South America - Buenaventura, Colombia; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Iquique, Chili; Callao, Peru; and Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica.
CMA CGM's Andex service will also provide weekly sailings out of the West Coast of South America to the US East Coast and Asia.
The first call in Balboa eastbound will be on June 26, and westbound on July 10.
The Asia-US East Coast SAX all-water service is also introducing an additional call at Jacksonville, Florida, as of July 7, the new gateway into North Florida, right before Savannah. This will complement CMA CGM's PEX service which calls weekly at Miami and Savannah.
Meanwhile, CMA CGM intends to withdraw its recently established weekly Nemo service from New Zealand at the beginning of August.
CMA cited rising costs as the reason for its decision.
In February, CMA announced plans to dump its Nemo service from Ports of Auckland and consolidate in the North Island on the Port of Tauranga.
Port of Tauranga (POT) said that in the short time the service had been calling in Tauranga, the volume of containers exchanged at the port had been far larger than originally predicted.
"We understand that CMA CGM expect to offer alternatives to current Nemo customers through the other services that they, and sister company ANL, currently hub through Tauranga and we do not expect any material impact on container throughput,'' POT said.
The decision in March by shipping heavyweights Hamburg Sud Trident and Maersk to merge their East Coast North America services cut ship visits to POT by 78.
A year ago Maersk decided to concentrate local services at Ports of Auckland, which it said it was using as a regional hub.
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