Rio Brasil Terminal (RBT), a business entity of International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) operating in the Port of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, recently welcomed the first call of the Sirius/Neo Bossa service operated jointly by CMA CGM and Maersk.
The arrival of the 9,000-TEU Maersk Lota, followed by the 10,000-TEU CMA CGM Columbia, marked the beginning of the weekly service at RBT.
The service has the following port rotation: Tanger Med (Morocco) – Salvador (Brazil) – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – Santos (Brazil) – Itapoá (Brazil) – Paranaguá (Brazil) – Santos (Brazil) – Itagua (Brazil) – Tanger Med (Morocco) – Algeciras (Spain).
The Sirius/Neo Bossa service connects Europe and the Mediterranean to the East Coast of South America via the transshipment hubs of Tanger Med and Algeciras.
