Mediterranean Shipping Co. adds Rotterdam to its Angola Express Service. The first sailing will take place September 18 with the departure of the MV Nikolas, the shipping company said in a press release.
MSC will deploy six vessels with a nominal capacity of 2,000TEU on its new look service, which includes new ports in NWC, namely Rotterdam, Antwerp and Bassens. The new service now also includes a direct call from Casablanca to destinations in West Africa.
Port Rotation: Rotterdam-Antwerp-Bassens (Bordeaux)-Sines-Casablanca-Las Palmas/Las Palmas-Conakry-Luanda-Dakar-Rotterdam.
Geneva-headquartered Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) was founded in 1970. Now it is the world's second shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity. MSC's fleet, which operates in all major ports of the world, comprises 471 vessels and has a capacity of 2,435,000 TEUs (as of end-December 2014).