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Home News World Shipping News Hapag-Lloyd starts weekly service to Portland-Europe via Panama
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 06:24
Shpg Gazette 8/2/12

GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd has launched an unusual rotation that gives US
Pacific north west shippers all-water weekly access to European ports via
Panama.

After Hamburg Sud announced an end to its Caribbean-Europe CAMS service in
December, it provided ships on Hapag-Lloyd's MPS service, which rotates
through Cartagena, Manzanillo (Mexico), Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle,
Vancouver, Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, Manzanillo (Mexico), Manzanillo
(Panama), Cartagena, Caucedo, Tangiers, Valencia, Cagliari, Livorno, Genoa,
Marseilles-Fos, Barcelona, Valencia, Tangiers, and back to Cartagena.

Said Portland harbour spokesman Josh Thomas: "We see that as a benefit to
exporters by having more efficient, dependable, and competitive options for
regional shippers."

Hinterland reach involves Tidewater Barge Line container service from
Lewiston, Idaho, 360 miles up the Snake River, going downstream to
Boardman, Oregon on the upper reaches of the Columbia with cargo
transloaded in Portland, which experienced a nine per cent increase in
container traffic last year.

The Portland terminal is run by Manila's International Container Terminal
Services Inc. (ICTSI). The rise in container volumes helped the port tie
its third best tonnage year, totalling 13.4 million tons versus 13.1
million tons in 2010.