Cagliari International Container Terminal announces new landings place of oceanic ships and feeder



The terminalista society Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) of the group Contship Italy, that it manages the container terminal of the port channel of Cagliari, has announced a series of new landings place of ships is oceanic is feeder graces to some important modifications in the services operated from the shipowning lines customers.

CICT has announced that the historical service Asia-Mediterranean USEC (coasts orientals of the USA) operated from Grand Alliance today evolves in service AZX (Asia Suez Express) which consequence of an increased cooperation to total level between Grand Alliance and The New Alliance World. This new produce-alliance, defined G6, will continue to offer an extensive net of connections da/per Cagliari. The first port of call that has inaugurated this important evolution is carried out 9th june with the ship OOCL Oakland that had already scaled in the past the CICT docks. The used ships will have a cargo ability between the 5,000 and 7,500 teu and will be operated by APL, Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL. The frequency of the ports of call remains unchanged with services weeklies magazine towards east and the West. New opportunities of development - it has specified CICT - will be able to regard the lines APL, existing HMM and MOL that join to the partner Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL.

Moreover the Hapag-Lloyd German has reorganized the service Med Gulf Express (MGX) replacing two ships with greater units, increasing consequently cargo the nominal ability of 30% for that she regards the connection weekly magazine between Cagliari and the coast oriental of the United States, the Gulf and Mexico. From Cagliari the services of connection for the Mediterranean and east the destinations of Suez thanks to the net of Hapag-Lloyd services will be available in which service MGX contributes with one of the seven ports of call, at a fixed date, than every week they connect the Sardinia with the main total markets.

Ulterior developments regard the services feeder, between which the substitution of the historical service between Spain-Cagliari and the Mediterranean oriental with a new service having greater ability to hold thanks to the employment of ships from 1.750 teu, with an increase of 50% about regarding the service precedence. CICT has explained that the overwhelming majority of the connected ports will remain unchanged: Cagliari in fact will be connected regularly with Spain, Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, Egypt, the Lebanese, Turkey and the Black Sea. They will improve also the connections between the South Italy and the Sicily, so as the level of service for the port of Tunisi and the recently inaugurated connection towards the Libyan ports of Tripoli and Misurata.

"These last developments - it has commented general the manager of CICT, Franco Nicola Cupolo - reflect the continuous need by the shipowning lines customers in offering the maximum efficiency in the connection nets. The ideal position of Cagliari, which crossroads to the center of the Mediterranean, afford the attainment of such objectives. Cagliari moreover has sufficient ability operating and elevated reliability, factors that afford to the lines to choose if and where to consolidate their services and Inter-to exchange ships and volumes between they".