CMA CGM Completes Asia-Europe Offer with New FAL4 Service
CMA CGM Group has the pleasure to announce the launching, on
July 9th, 2008, of its latest service in the FAL network linking
Asia and Europe: The FAL4 service.
Operated in partnership with China Shipping, FAL4 will deploy
a total of eight 9,700 teu vessels, covering the following port
rotation: Shanghai, Xiamen, Yantian, Nansha, Port Kelang,
Zeebrugge, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Shanghai.
FAL4 comes in addition to the Group’s existing FAL services
on the Asia-Europe route – FAL1, FAL2 and FAL3 –, thus providing
optimum port coverage on this major trade.
It will be offering a new strategic call in Nansha, in the
vicinity of Guangzhou, guaranteeing new opportunities in the
rapidly expanding region of the Pearl River Delta.
This new service will also include a new inbound call in
Zeebrugge, first discharge call in Europe, a port that is not
congested and which offers one of the best intermodal
connectivity in Europe into the Benelux and German Hinterland.
On the export side, the FAL4 will be the first service ever
to offer a direct non stop link between Rotterdam and Shanghai.
“The launching ot the FAL4 service, just in time for the
Westbound Peak Season, provides CMA CGM customers with a unique
combination of fast transit times - for example 22 days to link
Nansha and Zeebrugge – and original port coverage, with 2 new
calls in South China and Belgium. The service is also connected
to a wide range of in-house feeders, barges and rail services in
Asia and Europe, guaranteeing a global offer in line with the
Group’s door-to-door strategy” explains Nicolas Sartini, Senior
Vice President Asia Europe Lines at CMA CGM.
The first CMA CGM vessel deployed on the FAL4 will be the CMA
CGM ORFEO, scheduled to leave Shanghai on July 22nd. She will
soon be joined by her sisterships, the CMA CGM IVANHOE, the CMA
CGM PELLEAS, and the CMA CGM BUTTERFLY, the Group’s latest
generation of 9,700 teu vessels. (SAILINGS/PR/NT)
