French liner CMA CGM has added Zeebrugge to the FEMEX1 container feeder service. Femex1 offers a weekly direct connection between the Turkish market and North-European ports. It also connects Zeebrugge to the port of Casablanca in Morocco, the Port Authority said in its press release.
Port of Zeebrugge constitutes as an important hub for deepsea container services, connecting the coastal port to the Middle and Far East several times a week.
Zeebrugge has been added to the new Femex1 sailing schedule, which e have a connection to the most important ports in the Mediterranean, especially with the Turkish market, because the service calls on the ports of Kumport, Haydarpasa, Gebze, Gemlik and Aliaga. Tangiers en Casablanca are also ports of call in this service.
The first ship in this renewed service, CMA CGM Lavender, will arrive in the port on January 23 2015.