The 2M Alliance is to reinstate its AE7/Condor loop call at Hamburg this month, despite announcing the port would be omitted until next year, reports the Loadstar.
Good news for North European shippers
It is the first bit of good news for North European shippers for a while – lines have been increasingly dropping scheduled calls, reducing discharge rotations to a skeleton service based on just two or three hubs, supported by lengthy relay delays to final destination ports.
But although the reinstatement of the Hamburg call could be a positive for shippers, according to the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), it remains pessimistic that there will be relief from the severe congestion and highly elevated freight rates any time soon.
“Congestion is not just for Christmas,” said the GSF.
The first AE7/Condor vessel to resume its Hamburg call will be the 18,340 teu Matz Maersk, which is scheduled to call at the German city port this weekend.
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Source: The Loadstar
