The South Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS) has announced that it will begin an additional shipping service to cater for the anticipated seasonal increase in refrigerated exports from Cape Town, South Africa, in February.
According to SAECS, the first vessel in the Reefer Express Service (REX) will depart Cape Town during week 7 (15 February 2010) as an additional 'purely reefer' container service, designed to add capacity during the peak season of February-August.
The REX port rotation will be at Cape Town, Rotterdam (Uniport), Tilbury, Cape Town.
Week 7 will see the DAL Madagascar become the first vessel phased into the service, followed by the Warnow Vaquita (week 9), with the line remaining flexed in terms of frequency and ports of call according to seasonal demand. The REX will supplement the capacity provided by the main weekly SAECS core service.
SAECS member lines are Safmarine, Maersk Line, Deutsche Afrika Linien and Mitsui O.S.K Lines.
