MSC changes terminals on two South America services

Ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. will begin using the New York Container Terminal for its ECSA String 1 and USEC to WCSA services.    Ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. will begin using the New York Container Terminal at the Port of New York for its ECSA String 1 and USEC to WCSA services.
   The ECSA String 1 will begin using the New York Container Terminal with the July 18 sailing of the MSC Ingrid from Norfolk. According to ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting, the ECSA String 1 has a rotation of Norfolk, New York, Baltimore, Savannah, Freeport, Caucedo, Santos, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Navegantes, Santos, Salvador, Suape, Freeport and Norfolk. MSC provides all eight of the 5,091-TEU average capacity vessels on the ECSA String 1 and ZIM purchases slots on the service.
   The USEC to WCSA loop will begin using the New York Container Terminal with the July 21 sailing of the MSC Sariska from Philadelphia. The service has a rotation of Philadelphia, New York, Charleston, Port Everglades, Freeport, Kingston, Cristobal, Balboa, Buenaventura, Callao, Arica, Coronel, Valparaiso, Callao, Balboa, Cristobal, Freeport and Philadelphia. MSC provides all seven vessels on the service, which have an average vessel capacity of 4,546 TEUs. Maersk Line and subsidiaries Safmarine and SeaLand, as well as CMA CGM and its subsidiary line Delmas, purchase slots on the USEC to WCSA.
   Both services previously used the Port Newark Container Terminal.
   The New York Container Terminal offers three deep water berths, eight outbound and 12 inbound truck lanes and 375 reefer plugs. “The proximity of NYCT to warehousing facilities and road networks to Brooklyn, Long Island, New Jersey and I-95 highway corridor, will make for smoother onward transit of cargo to final destinations,” MSC said in a statement.