NILE DUTCH Africa Line (NDAL), which has more than 20 years shipping experience on the Europe West Africa trades and is an acknowledged 'Angolan specialist', will launch a new container liner service between South Africa and Angola from the end of the month.
Kieran Sullivan, who heads up the new South African agency Nile Dutch South Africa (NDSA) as an affiliate company of the established Foreshore Ships Agency, said that Durban, Cape Town, Luanda and Lobito will be the base ports of call on a ten day rotation, with containers for Namibe, Pointe Noire, Libreville and Douala being accepted on a transhipment basis. Direct calls to some of these ports may however become possible on an alternate basis in the future.
In addition to accommodating exports from South Africa, the new service will also be used to tranship Nile Dutch's crosstrade containers originating in Asia, the Middle East and South America.
"Nile Dutch has more than 20 years experience in Angola, where the line manages its own logistics and operations through the Nile Dutch agency in Luanda and has an exclusive contract at the Unicargas terminal amounting to what is virtually its 'own' berth. As a consequence the congestion experienced elsewhere in the port since 2001 has had no effect on Nile Dutch's cargo, which is released much quicker than anywhere else in the port, giving the line more than an edge," Sullivan told FTW.
The first ship, the 790TEU NDS Benguela arrives in Durban on May 30 to inaugurate the 10-day liner service, and will be followed by a second ship. The ships can accept reefer containers as well as open sided boxes for perishable cargo such as onions and potatoes.
Nile Dutch launches Angola service
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