CMA CGM starts intra-Black Sea, intra-Baltic Sea weekly services

MARSEILLES' shipping giant CMA CGM has announced it will launch a new Black Sea-Azov weekly service with 300-TEU ships after the New Year though the terminal in Novorossiysk has not yet been chosen, reports St Petersburg SeaNews agency.

The new service expects to handle the growing volume of traffic between Russia and Turkey including the cargo flows to the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region, as well as other regions of Central Russia, said the agency report.

The rotation will be Constanta, Istanbul, Novorossiysk, Taganrog and back to Constanta.

CMA CGM has also launched a new feeder service from Hamburg to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and on to Kaliningrad with the 698-TEU Ice Bird on November 18 that will call at Hamburg terminals weekly basis.

Transshipments between Hamburg and Russian Baltic Sea ports amounted to 165,000 TEU for the first half of the year, making Russia the third most important trading partner for Hamburg's transhipment traffic.

Source: http://www.schednet.com