CMA CGM will join Asyad Line and Folk Maritime on the India-Red Sea Service (IRS), with the French carrier branding the service as the India Red Sea Express/India Gulf Express 3 (BIGEX3). CMA CGM will join the IRS/BIGEX3 service that calls at Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Salalah, Jeddah, Nhava Sheva from 22 February 2025, adding a 3rd ship to the service as the sailing frequency is upgraded from 10 days to 7 days. The 3 partners will operate 1 ship each with CMA CGM's 2,524 teu ZHE CHENG XIN ZHOU joini
CMA CGM and Tarros will renew their current cooperation on the Mediterranean Pendulum Service (MPS)/Great Pendulum Service (GPS) in February 2025 following the departure of Arkas from their current joint service. The revised MPS/GPS service will call at Genoa, La Spezia, Barcelona, Casablanca, Leixoes, Setubal, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseille, La Spezia, Genoa, Salerno, Piraeus, Beirut, Mersin, Latakia, Alexandria, Salerno, Genoa from 23 February 2025. The service will turn in 6 weeks using 6 sh
CMA CGM will launch a new Egypt Greece Algeria Line (EGAL) calling at Alexandria, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Malta, Annaba, Alexandria from February 2025. The EGAL will turn in 28 days and will deploy 4 ships of 1,300-1,400 teu. Originally scheduled to start on 12 February 2025, the first sailing has been delayed to 19 February 2025 with the 1,338 teu ATLANTIC SILVER at Alexandria.
CMA CGM has launched a new Baltic Express (BLX) / Baltic Shuttle (PLX) service that connects Gdansk, Kotka, Riga, Gdansk from 20 January 2025. The BLX/PLX service will turn in 7 days with a weekly frequncy using the 907 teu JSP MISTRAL.
The 11,388 teu CMA CGM COLUMBA is scheduled to make an eastbound Suez transit on 23 January 2025 after having passed through Suez on 6 December 2024 on its westbound voyage for the Europe Pakistan India Consortium (EPIC) service that CMA CGM jointly operates with COSCO and OOCL. A CMA CGM spokesperson said that the 2 Suez voyages were ad hoc sailings and the company is closely monitoring the ongoing developments. The EPIC service has been re-routed to the Cape route since 2024 and currently ope
The OCEAN Alliance carriers will have the largest market share and widest market coverage in 2025 after they unveiled their Day 9 product that will be launched in April this year. 3 additional Alliance services will be added to their existing service network, giving them a dominant position on the Transpacific market with 15 sailings to the West Coast and 8 sailings to the East Coast. It will also have the widest coverage to North Europe with a 7th service to be added, matching MSC’s coverage t
ONE will join CMA CGM, COSCO and OOCL to operate a new Med-US Transatlantic 4 service branded respectively as AT4/Amerigo/MENA/ATM. The service will call at Salerno, La Spezia, Genoa, Vado Ligure, Valencia, Algeciras, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Miami, Algeciras, Salerno. The new service will replace the existing AL6 that is jointly operated by CMA CGM, COSCO, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd in a cross-Alliance service that also includes Evergreen, Yang Ming, ONE and Zim. The revised AT4/Amerigo/MENA/AT
CMA CGM will add a new Odessa Express (ODX) service connecting Piraeus, Odeassa, Ambarli, Piraeus from 24 January 2025. The ODX service turn in 14 days and will deploy 2 ships of 1,100-1,500 teu starting with the 1,118 teu LILA CANADA at Piraeus on 24 January followed by the 1,550 teu TJ ORHAN on 31 January.
CMA CGM has launched a new Bora Med Service (BMS) linking Antalya, Izmir, Aliaga, Ambarli, Gebze, Gemlik, Malta, Ancona, Ravenna, Venice, Trieste, Koper, Rijeka, Bar, Taranto, Malta, Limassol, Alexandria, Beirut, Antalya from 26 December 2024. The BMS service turns in 42 days and will deploy 6 ships of 1,800 to 2,500 teu starting with the 2,207 teu CMA CGM SAHARA at Antalya on 26 December 2024. The service was extended to call at Syria from 10 February 2025 with new calls at Lattakia and Tarto
CMA CGM and its intra-Asia arm CNC has introduced a new China Vietnam Express 8 (CV8) service calling at Shanghai, Ningbo, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai from 28 December 2024. The CV8 service turns in 14 days and deploys the 2,058 teu CMA CGM ESCURIAL and 1,756 teu KUO LIN.