[021020.EN.SEA] Evergreen Joins Arkas/Emes to Offer Black Sea Loops From Piraeus

 

TAIWAN shipping giant Evergreen is launching two new services between East Mediterranean and the Black Sea, one of them in cooperation with Arkas/Emes, reports SeaNews, St Petersburg.

The new services dubbed Turkey-Georgia-Russia (TGR) and Greece-Turkey-Bulgaria (GTB) will replace two existing operations branded BSM (Black Sea & Marmara feeder) and GTG (Greece-Turkey-Georgia), reports Alphaliner.

GTB will be operated in cooperation with Arkas/Emes, which advertises it as Aegean-Bulgaria Express (ABX). TGR will be operated with two 1,100-TEU vessels, rotating through Piraeus, Istanbul (Ambarli), Izmit (Gebze, Poti, Novorossiysk, Gemlik and back to Piraeus.

GTB/ABX will deploy two 1,700-TEU ships, one operated by Evergreen and one by Arkas/Emes. The service starts on September 25 with the Roza A departing Piraeus.

The service rotation of GTB/ABX is Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Istanbul (Haydarpasa), Istanbul (Ambarli), Varna, Istanbul (Ambarli) and back to Piraeus.

The ABX rotation as marketed by Arkas is as follows: Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Piraeus, Istanbul (Haydarpasa), Istanbul (Ambarli), Varna, Istanbul and back to Piraeus.

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