New NEMO service incorporates Port Louis and Djibouti calls

CMA CGM, together with its subsidiary Delmas, and German carrier DAL plus ANL, has introduced a new 91-day rotation Indian Ocean service between Europe, Australia and South East Asia that incorporates Djibouti on the Red Sea, Pointe des Galets (Reunion) and Port Louis (Mauritius).
The service has already commenced with the sailing of CMA CGM COPERNIC from Hamburg on 23 February, which will be followed at fortnightly intervals with departures from Tilbury, then Hamburg etc of HERMES on 9 March, CMA CGM LAVENDER on 23 March and CONTI SALOME on 6 April.
From May the service, which involves 13 ships (CMA CGM – 9 ships, Delmas – 3 ships, DAL – 1 ship and ANL – slots) each of 2,800-TEU, will become a weekly service. Known as NEMO – North Europe Mascarene Oceania, the rotation is as follows:
Tilbury, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Le Havre, Fos, Le Spezia, Damietta, Suez Canal, Djibouti, Pointe des Galets, Port Louis, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Lyttleton, Melbourne, Adelaide, Jakarta, Port Kelang, Chennai, Colombo, Djibouti, Jeddah, Suez Canal, Damietta, Malta, Le Spezia, Tilbury.
The new NEMO service has replaced the former Indian Ocean service operated by the respective lines.