AS Daily reported Monday that CMA CGM is starting a second U.S. East Coast – Oceania loop in March 2014. It should be pointed out that CMA CGM will in fact be joining the existing Maersk/Mediterranean Shipping Co./Hamburg Sud/Hapag-Lloyd Oceania loop sailing weekly from Philadelphia and Charleston to Oceania. CMA CGM will call this 3,400-TEU average loop PAD 2.
The new PAD 2 service will be in addition to CMA CGM’s own fortnightly Europe – U.S. East Coast – Oceania PAD 1 loop, which calls New York and Savannah southbound and Savannah and Philadelphia northbound. French carrier Marfret provides one of the six average 2,500-TEU vessels in this loop.
CLARIFICATION: CMA CGM’s 2nd U.S. East Coast-Oceania loop
