SOUTH AFRICA/EUROPE CONSORTIUM ADDS CAPACITY

SOUTH AFRICA/EUROPE CONSORTIUM ADDS CAPACITY    Southern Africa Europe Container Service, the consortium of Safmarine, Maersk Sealand, Deutsche Afrika Linien and P&O Nedlloyd, said that it will introduce larger containerships and revise port rotations.
   The consortium’s second weekly loop, introduced last year, will now operate faster vessels of about 1,400-TEU capacity, replacing the current ships of 1,000 to 1,100 TEUs.
   The main weekly string will continue to employ ships of about 3,000-TEU capacity.
   The main service will stop calling at Algeciras and will instead call at Las Palmas and Tenerife, in the Canary islands. Conversely, the second loop will call at Algeciras both southbound and northbound and drop port calls in the Canary islands.
   The Southern Africa Europe Container Service consortium said that its second loop will make direct calls at Bremerhaven, Algeciras, East London, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Algeciras, Bristol, Antwerp and Bremerhaven.