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A single last-minute round voyage has been announced by NSB for its 68,800-ton m.v. Buxcoast, a vessel equipped with an Owners Cabin, Double Cabin and Single Cabin.

The CMA CGM Marseille, second vessel of CMA CGM’s three-ship Guyanamax series, has recently been delivered in South Korea. This 2100 TEU capacity vessel (including 530 reefer containers) was built by the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and will fly the UK flag.

This year, experience both a passenger-carrying container ship and a cruise ship on your voyage from Europe to Australia and spend six days in between (November 16-22) in Malaysia or Singapore under your own arrangements.

After years of very little happening as far as cargo-passenger service goes in the Port of Halifax, it turns out that the port is turning into a bit of a mecca for container ship travel.

The addition this month of Halifax to CMA CGM’s Columbus Loop service to and from Asia via Suez and across the Pacific to Vancouver presents a new cargo-passenger service that will be of interest particularly to Canadians.

NSB’s m.v. Lisbon sails next Friday on her first Singapore to Australia run, calling en route at Port Kelang. Australian ports of call include Fremantle (10 days from Singapore), Sydney (16 days) and Melbourne (19 days).

With CMA CGM’s French Asia Line 1 dropping its calls in Hong Kong, there will no longer be any direct route betwen Southampton and Hong Kong.

Tomorrow sees the first voyage from New York of a new four-weekly cargo-passenger service connecting Savannah and New York with Antwerp, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven. Known as ATL4, the new rotation has been opened by Maersk and MSC to supplement the two lines’ existing services.

Monday sees the first voyage from New York of a new four-weekly cargo-passenger service connecting Savannah and New York with Rotterdam, Bremerhaven and Le Havre.

This summer, why not spend seven or eight days away (voyage times can vary slightly) on a modern (2006/08-built) 8-passenger cargo ship from Antwerp.

NSB Freighter Cruises have just advised us that they still have the following cabins available from Europe to US East Coast for June.

In 1993, Taiwan-based Evergreen Line acquired the company Italia Marittima, which up until fairly recently had been know as Lloyd Triestino, and had been famous for running an attractive fleet of ocean liners from the Adriatic to Australia and New Zealand and the Far East. (more…)