As a response to what are described as 'changing market conditions', Hamburg Süd and Aliança have decided to restructure their service between North Europe and the East Coast of South America.
The revamped service configuration will operate with seven 7,100 TEU 'Santa' class vessels, each of which are purpose-built for the trade and feature 1,600 reefer plugs.
The port rotation on the revised service will be Rotterdam, Tilbury, Hamburg, Antwerp, Le Havre, Sepetiba, Santos, Paranagua, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Itapoa, Santos, Tangier and Rotterdam.
In addition, there will be slot arrangements at Paranagua, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Pecem to ensure complete port coverage, the groups revealed.
'The new configuration, which starts in mid-April, will provide reliable weekly port coverage with competitive transit times and connections to the Hamburg Süd network serving Eastern and Western Mediterranean and Middle East destinations via the hub port Tangier,' Hamburg Süd noted.
