Hamburg Sud restructures Trident Service

Hamburg Sud announced today that it is restructuring its Trident Service in response to changing market conditions. The changes are designed to bring reduced network costs.

Cargo to and from Europe - Australia/New Zealand will be served through the well established hub port in Cartagena (Colombia), with tailor-made transhipment connections to/from three weekly North Europe services.

The operation will continue uninterrupted by retaining the ports covered in the Trident Service, enhanced by an additional call in New York.

The rotation will be as follows: Tilbury (UK), Bremerhaven (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium), Philadelphia (US), New York (US), Savannah (US), Tilbury (UK).

Midwest Inland destinations will be serviced through either Philadelphia or New York providing the fastest and most cost efficient intermodal connections westbound from Europe.

Coast-Australia/New Zealand trade will continue to be covered through an end to end service operated jointly with Maersk Line, employing nine vessels each with a nominal capacity of 2,800 TEU and a reefer plug capacity of 530 plugs.

Calls in Cartagena (Colombia) will be added southbound and northbound in order to link the networkof connecting and dedicated feeder services into the US Gulf, US East Coast, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and now Europe.

The new port rotation will be as follows: Philadelphia (US), Savannah (US), Cartagena (Colombia), Balboa (Panama), Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia), Timaru (New Zealand), Port Chalmers (New Zealand), Napier (New Zealand), Tauranga (New Zealand), Auckland (New Zealand), Manzanillo (Panama), Cartagena (Colombia), Philadelphia (US).

These new service configurations will be introduced from May onwards while the change over has been organized in such a way that service levels will continue uninterrupted.<Korea Shipping Gazette>