Weekly Highlights – Week 5

We are pleased to present a new edition of the Weekly Highlights to you. As always, this newsletter contains important information on changes to our network and services. If you have any questions, please contact your local Maersk Line representative.

Since December 2010, Matadi port is experiencing an unfortunate congestion, which is adversely impacting our schedule reliability and creating a backlog of containers in Pointe Noire Port (last transhipment port for Matadi Cargo).

This congestion is partly due to the Matadi Port Authority’s decision to prioritise conventional vessels port entry in order to ensure food supplies in the local market during the festive season. Suspension of Congo river traffic due to deterioration in river draft to a non-operational level has also added to the congestion.

Dredging of the river has commenced from 20 January 2011 and we remain hopeful that the situation will soon improve.

If you have any questions, please contact your local Maersk Line representative.

Services

Asia – Central America, Caribbean and West Coast of South America – Change in rotation of Asia – Central America 2 (AC2) roundtrip service
We would like to announce that, effective 7 March we have made some changes in the rotation of our Asia – Central America 2 (AC2) service.

New rotation: Balboa, Panama – Yokohama, Japan – Xiamen, China – Hong Kong, Hong Kong – Yantian, China – Ningbo, China – Shanghai, China – Kwangyang, Korea – Yokohama, Japan – Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico – Balboa, Panama

» Click here for the new AC2 roundtrip service map

The first vessel sailing on the AC2 is the Maersk Taikung (voyage 1103), which is expected to depart (ETD) from Yokohama, Japan on 7 March 2011.

If you have any questions, please contact your local Maersk Line representative.

West Coast South America – East Coast North America – New Spondylus  service

We are pleased to announce the introduction of our new Spondylus service. This new dedicated service will ensure very competitive transit times and rates for all cargo flows from the West Coast of South America to East Coast of North America.

The  weekly Spondylus service will also ensure further versatile connections in Panama to connect the loads coming from Chile and Callao, Peru.

Rotation: Paita, Peru – Guayaquil, Ecuador – Balboa, Panama  – Manzanillo, Panama –  Miami, Florida, US – Newark, New Jersey, US  –  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US  – Savannah, Georgia, US

The first vessel on the new Spondylus service will be the Maersk Westport (voyage 1110), expected to depart (ETD) from  Guayaquil, Ecuador on 9 February 2011.

If you have any questions, please contact your local Maersk Line representative.

Surcharge News

Overview of CAF and global BAF levels

For a comprehensive overview of the CAF levels and the global BAF calculator, please follow the link below.

» CAF and global BAF

To view trade specific surcharges that have been changed in the past week in Maersk Line, please click on the trade names given below. Please note the published surcharges are not a comprehensive overview of all the surcharges applicable in the trades, but reflect recent changes only.

Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF) changes for March

You’ll find most BAF changes for March in this week’s edition. Click the link for your trade or click “All trades” to see a list of all surcharges, including BAF.

To see BAF changes only, » click here

Other surcharges

World to/from Italy – Change in Inland Haulage Import (IHI), Inland Haulage Export (IHE)

Starting 1 March 2011, Maersk Italia will increase the Italian inland carrier haulage rates (both full truck and rail combined).

For more information please contact your local Maersk Line office.

Surcharges