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CMA CGM restructures the containerized marine connections between the Mediterranean North Europe/and South America
By the spin of the Sirius service the ports of call to the Italian ports of Livorno and Gioia Tauro will be eliminated
August 25, 2017
The company of French navigation CMA CGM has announced a restructure of own offer of containerized marine connections with South America consequent to the project of acquisition of the company of Brazilian navigation Mercosul Line, that it will be yielded by Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk ( on 13 June 2017).
The reorganization regards the service of Safran line, that it connects the Europe North with the Latin America, and the service of Sirius line, that it connects the Mediterranean with the South American ports. The new configurations of the two routes will be introduced for the Safran service with the departure from the port of Rotterdam of next the 27 september and for the Sirius service with the departure from the port of Malta 6 Freeport of next October.
The spin of the new Safran service will touch the ports of Rotterdam, London, Amburgo, Antwerp, the Havre, Algeciras, Santos, Paranagua, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Itapoa, Paranagua, Santos, Pecem and Tanger Med.
The spin of the new Sirius service, that it is realized with the companies Hamburg Süd, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), will scale the ports of Malta Freeport, Genoa, Barcelona, Valencia, Algeciras, Salvador, Itaguai, Santos, Itapoa, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande, Itajai, Itapoa, Santos, Itaguai, Tanger Med and Algeciras. The French company will eliminate therefore from the spin the Italian ports of Livorno and Gioia Tauro that up to now take part of the offered ports of call of the Sirius from CMA CGM so as the French port of Marseilles Fos, than in the new configuration of the Sirius does not appear between the Mediterranean landings place.
Three of the eight ships employed in the renewed Sirius service will be supplied by CMA CGM, than previously it was limited to rent cargo spaces on the portacontainer used on the route.
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The company of French navigation CMA CGM has announced a restructure of own offer of containerized marine connections with South America consequent to the project of acquisition of the company of Brazilian navigation Mercosul Line, that it will be yielded by Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
