Costa Container Lines, Maruba add Fos to Med/South America loop

Costa Container Lines, Maruba add Fos to Med/South America loop    Costa Container Lines and Maruba are adding direct weekly calls to Fos on their joint weekly Mediterranean/East Coast South America/Canary Islands/Mediterranean SAM/Seagull service.
   The 2,064-TEU vessel “Cala Paradiso” will make the first call at Fos when it departs June 4.
   The SAM/Seagull service uses six ships of about 2,000 TEUs with Costa providing five of the ships and Maruba one. The revised port rotation will be Valencia, Fos, Vado Ligure, Leghorn, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande (fortnightly), Paranagua (fortnightly), Sao Francisco do Sul (fortnightly), Santos, Rio de Janeiro (fortnightly), Pecem, Las Palmas, (fortnightly), and back to Valencia.