South Africa Europe Container Service starts reefer service

The South Africa Europe Container Service (SAECS) has confirmed that it will run an additional shipping service to cater for the anticipated season increased in refrigerated exports. The first vessel in the Reefer Express (REX) service will start opertaing the route on 15 February in Cape Town.

SAECS says in a statement: “The REX service is an additional, ‘purely reefer’, container service designed to provide added capacity for refrigerated exports during the peak reefer season months of February to August.” The REX vessels will call Cape Town, Rotterdam (Uniport), Tilbury, Cape Town. Transit times for the REX service are comparable to the SAECS core service.

SAECS says that the REX service will be “flexed” in terms of frequency and ports of call according to the seasonal demands of the perishable/ refrigerated products market and will supplement the capacity provided by the main weekly SAECS Core Service.

Source: http://www.mglobal.com