CMA CGM to launch the French Europe Med Express (FEMEX)

THE French shipping group CMA CGM Group is commencing from June 1 a new service linking North Europe, Greece and Turkey named the French Europe Med Express (FEMEX).

This fixed-day service will deploy five vessels of 2,100 TEU and offer direct connections between North Europe and the main ports in the Aegean Sea, between Greece and Turkey and the Marmara Seas between the Hellespont and the Dardanelles.

FEMEX will call eastbound and westbound at Tangiers, a CMA CGM hub in the western Mediterranean offering new import and export opportunities between North America, Latin America, West Africa, Greece and Turkey, a statement from the carrier said.

The port rotation for this new weekly service will be: Hamburg, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Le Havre, Tangiers, Malta, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Gebze, Gemlik, Izmir, Malta, Tangiers, Hamburg.

Thanks to this new service, CMA CGM will offer its customers efficient and reliable connections between North Europe and the two main markets in the eastern Mediterranean. Thus the group not only responds to customer demand, but it also reaffirms its commitment to reinforcing its services in the Mediterranean area, where the Group has a strong historical presence, said Europe-Med line manager Bernard de Revel.

The first vessel deployed on the FEMEX will depart from Hamburg on June 1.

Source: Transportweekly