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The port of Tanger Med loses a customer
Safmarine decides to transfer the ports of call from the Moroccan port to Algeciras and Malaga
October 31, 2011
With frequency the shipowners decide to move own services of line from a port to another for operating necessities or economic convenience. Less frequent it is the abandonment of a great port of new construction and in strong development, as is that Moroccan of Tanger Med.
However sometimes own the fast and tumultuous increase penalizes the reliability of the ports of call. The reason seems to be this that has induced the company of Safmarine navigation of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk to decide to transfer own touched by the Moroccan port to the port of Algeciras, where its ships will land to the container terminals operated from APM Terminals, also filial it of the Danish group, and by the South Korean shipowning company Hanjin Shipping, and to the other Spanish port of Malaga.
"Because of the unsatisfactory level of the service - Safmarine has confirmed - we will interrupt our activity to the port of Tangeri. With of the repeated interruptions of the service and the lack of any guarantee on a future improvement - it has explained the company - it has induced to us to the decision to transfer the activity from the port. We will move the activity to Algeciras in future using is the terminals of APM and Hanjin, and to Malaga, where we have found a greater efficiency and stability".
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With frequency the shipowners decide to move own services of line from a port to another for operating necessities or economic convenience. Less frequent it is the abandonment of a great port of new construction and in strong development, as is that Moroccan of Tanger Med.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
