MOL joining Hamburg Sud’s South America/U.S. loop

MOL joining Hamburg SudÆs South America/U.S. loop Japanese steamship line MOL said Tuesday it would drop its AXL service connecting the East coasts of South America and the United States, and will join Hamburg Sud's Americas Container Express service (ACX) on the same trade.
   On Monday, Maersk Line said it was dropping out of its NASA service (which MOL chartered slots on and called its AXL service) to join the Hamburg Sud loop.
   The ACX service will call at: Buenos Aires, Rio Grande, Sao Francisco do Sul, Santos, Salvador, Norfolk, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, making its first northbound call to Brazil in mid-April.