CMA CGM Updates European, African Services

The CMA CGM Group announce the specialization of its EURAF 1 and EURAF 2 services to meet the needs of its African and European clients.

Accordinng to the shipping company, the services will offer two weekly services from Europe and the Mediterranean to Africa instead of one; improved reliability and punctuality, with a new calls distribution between the different EURAF services; and strategic calls in Hamburg and London Gateway ports to Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, and 2 weekly calls in Antwerp.

The EURAF 1 service will deploy 6 3,500 TEU vessels on the following direct weekly rotation: Dunkirk, Antwerp, Le Havre, Montoir, Tangiers, Dakar, Abidjan, Dakar, Tangiers and Dunkirk.  
The first voyage will start from Dunkirk, on January 22, 2015, on the CS Discovery. The CMA CGM Group will be the unique operator of the service.  

 The EURAF 2 service will deploy 6 2,600 TEU vessels on the following direct weekly rotation: Antwerp, Hamburg, London Gateway, Tangiers, TinCan, Tema, Abidjan and Antwerp.
The first voyage will start from Antwerp, on January 25, 2015, on the MV Frisia Helsinki.