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MSC goes all out to Oz from London Gateway

MSC's Australia Express Service has started calls at DP World London Gateway Port, providing direct calls to King Abdullah port in Saudi Arabia, Colombo in Sri Lanka and ports around the Australian coast. It will be the fastest direct service between Northern Europe and Australia. Earlier, MSC announced a new direct call in Dakar on its North Europe to West Africa service. It said it would drastically improve transit time for ... [+]

MSC adds London Gateway-Australia service

MSC's Australia Express is now providing direct calls between London Gateway and Sydney, offering the fastest direct service between Australia and the UK and North West Continent. The service also calls at Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore and Colombo. MSC has also added the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a ... [+]

MSC goes for another Indian port

MSC is adding a direct call at the east coast Indian port of Hazira from July 2015. The route, operated by seven 9,000teu ships, is served from Felixstowe in the UK. [+]

Condor trims its wings

MSC is bucking the trend towards ever-larger container ships by reducing the average vessel size on its Asia-Europe Condor service from 9,500 to 6,500teu. The move follows extensive analysis of capacity on its services against current and anticipated demands. The network changes will apply to Maersk Line, MSC's partner in ... [+]

Oscar for Felixstowe

The world's largest containership, MSC Oscar is en route to the UK. Having called in Rotterdam from Algeciras on 3 March the 19,224teu ship's next call is Bremerhaven followed by Felixstowe on 9 March. [+]

Updated: Quick link Down Under

  MSC is introducing a new Australia Express link to Northern Europe. A fleet of 12 4,800teu vessels will operate between Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore, Chennai, Colombo, King Abdullah Port (Saudi Arabia) to Gioia Tauro and Valencia, with weekly connections to and from the UK and Ireland. MSC has also restructured ... [+]

Potter swings it for shipping line

Potter Logistics’ says its Selby rail freight terminal was able to maintain turn-round times for the daily GBRf-operated MSC container train from Felixstowe port from July to September 2014, despite engineering work on a local swing bridge reducing available time by 50 minutes. Pictured: Jason Croft, account manager - GBRf (L) ... [+]

Another gain for London Gateway

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is to switch its South Africa to UK/Northwest Europe service from Felixstowe to London Gateway from December. The first MSC vessel to call into DP World London Gateway on the new rotation will be the MSC Rita, which is due to arrive on 7 December. The Europe/South ... [+]

US gives green light to 2M

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has given the green light to the proposed '2M' vessel sharing agreement between Maersk and MSC. However, the agreement of the Chinese competition authorities is still awaited. It was their veto that scuppred the more ambitious P3 alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM earlier ... [+]

New boss for MSC

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has appointed Diego Aponte as president and CEO. He is currently vice-president and has worked for the line since 1997. [+]

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