The move enables CSCL to offer a feeder service in the Baltic for the first time, instead of relying on slots, reports Alphaliner.
The RFS offers a cycle of three weeks combining two successive rotations that are operated by three ships on a port rotation of: Hamburg (HHLA and Eurogate), St Petersburg (Petrolesport and FCT), Kotka, Hamburg, St Petersburg, Kotka and back to Hamburg.
CSCL will provide the chartered 1,216-TEU Lantau Arrow to the service, replacing the 1,050-TEU Evolution that Hanjin is to redeliver.