The SIRIUS service will now operate two complementary loops deploying six 3100-Teu and six 2800-Teu vessels respectively.
Rotation will be:
Loop 1: Barcelona / Vado Ligure / Livorno / Fos / Valencia / Rio de Janeiro (SB) / Santos (SB) / Buenos Aires / Montevideo / Santos (NB) / Rio de Janeiro (NB) / Pecem / Barcelona
Loop 2: Valencia / Genoa / Livorno / Malta / Dakar / Buenos Aires / Rio Grande / Sao Francisco do Sul / Santos / Valencia
The new organization has the advantage to include a direct call in Malta providing wide access to Eastern Mediterranean ports thanks to an important feeder network.
New opportunities are also offered in Western Africa thanks to a direct call in Dakar, which will serve as a transshipment base for cargo originating from Asia and the Mediterranean.
'These new calls allow CMA CGM to better service the Eastern part of the Mediterranean and to extend its reach onto local markets. It guarantees CMA CGM customers extensive, but also competitive service,' explains Jean-Yves Duval, Deputy Vice President Latin America East Coast lines at CMA CGM.
