SCL SWITCHES HUB TO ALGECIRAS

   Safmarine Container Lines will switch its southern Europe container hub
from Las Palmas to Algeciras.
   The network change follows the acquisition of SCL by Maersk Line.
   From the end of May, Mediterranean cargo carried by SCL to and from
southern Africa will be transshipped via Algeciras, where Maersk runs a box
terminal, using Maersk’s Mediterranean feeder services.
   SCL will also move Mediterranean cargoes on Maersk’s Algeciras/southern Africa container service. This replaces a previous arrangement under which SCL carried Mediterranean containers on the Las Palmas/southern Africa leg of the SAECS northern Europe/southern Africa joint service.
   The SAECS service, of which SCL is a major participant, will stop
calling at the Las Palmas hub.