Macs adds transatlantic service

Hamburg-based Maritime Carrier Shipping (Macs) has just started a new multipurpose service between UK/North West Continent and the US Gulf/ Mexico-US East Coast. This East-West service is a change from the North-South routes that Macs and its US partner line, Galborg, have been offering up to now. Macs has supplied the main multipurpose service between UK/North West Continent and Southern Africa, while Galborg has been providing a multipurpose service connecting the US and Southern Africa for the past 15 years. Both lines act as the other’s general agents in their home continents. The transatlantic service will deploy the 34 000-deadweight (dwt) tonne, open-hatch/boxshaped, multipurpose container vessels Amber Lagoon and Purple Beach – each with a lifting capacity of up to 110 tonnes. The service offers transport of breakbulk, unitised cargo, rolling stock, steel products, project cargo, bulk parcels and containers. The first eastbound sailing from the US Gulf left Houston on January 5, and the first westbound voyage will start loading in Bremen on January 30. The rotation of the monthly-frequency service will be: Altamira (Mexico), New Orleans, Houston, Rotterdam, Immingham, Bremen, Antwerp and Bilbao. CAPTION The 34 000dwt Purple Beach is now employed on the new multipurpose service between UK/ North West Continent and the US Gulf/Mexico-US East Coast.