In order to adapt the Group’s offer to its clients’ demand, CMA CGM decided to improve its Gulfbridge service by decreasing its transit times to Colombia, the company said in its press release.
The service first rotation will start on April 29th, in New Orleans, with the vessel Frisia Loga. 2,500 TEUs capacity vessels will call ports in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and East and West South American coast calls through its Kingston transshipment.
Starting early May, the Hispaniola service will be improved:
Calls frequency will be increased. The main ports will be called weekly, which will promote Reefer containers transportation
With the frequency increase and the Kingston, Pointe-à-Pitre and Point Lisas port hubs connection, the service reliability will be improved. Transit times from Kingston will be reduced.
Two 850 TEUs and 1,150 TEUs capacity vessels will be placed on the following rotation: Kingston, Jamaica – Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Cap Haitian, Haiti – Philipsburg, Saint Marteen – Saint Johns, Antigua – Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe – Fort-de-France, Martinique – Roseau, Dominique – Camden Park, Saint-Vincent les Grenadines – Saint George, Grenada – Point Lisas, Trinidad & Tobago – Bridgetown, Barbados – Castries, Saint-Lucia – Kingston, Jamaica.
With the Gulfbridge and Hispaniola services optimization, the CMA CGM Group improves its direct and indirect services of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, East, West and North South American coasts markets.
About CMA CGM
CMA CGM, founded and led by Jacques R. Saadé is the world’s third largest and France’s top container shipping company.
Its 445 vessels call more than 400 ports in the world, on all 5 continents. In 2014, over 12.2 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) were carried.
Present in 150 countries, with a network of 655 agencies, the Group employs 20,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 in its headquarters in Marseilles.