CMA CGM has implemented call changes to its West Africa Express, WAX, service, which operates on the Asia – West Africa trade.
As of the beginning of October, a Kribi, Cameroon direct weekly and fixed-day port call has been added to the port coverage, with transit times to Kribi from Shanghai of 33 days, Ningbo 32 days and Nansha 28 days.
The updated WAX service rotation is: Shanghai – Ningbo – Shekou – Nansha – Tanjung Pelepas – Singapore – Kribi – Cotonou – Abidjan – Tin Can Lagos – Lome – Colombo – Singapore – Shanghai
A movement of lading from the customer’s dock to the destination intermodal ramp closest to the receiver.
Multimodal solutions are offered to shippers in Douala with door-to-ramp movements (loading from the customer’s dock to the destination intermodal ramp closest to the receiver or consignee), North Cameroon, Chad and Central African Republic, according to an announcement.
The first vessel which sailed on the upgraded schedule was the 4,250TEU boxship Navios Nerine starting its rotation from the port of Shanghai on 2 October.