RICKMERS-LINIE, the breakbulk, heavylift and project cargo specialist headquartered in Hamburg, has launched a new service linking North Asia with South America and the US east coast.
Four vessels, each capable of lifting 120-tonne indivisible loads and featuring stern ramps for rolling cargo, will maintain the monthly schedule. Three of the ships are 11,500 tons and one is 13,000 tons.
"Being smaller than the 30,000 deadweight tons Pearl String ships, they have the added advantage of being able to call at smaller, draught-restricted ports," the carrier said in a statement.
The four ships - Bright State, Del Sol, Fortune Epoch and Reina Rosa - are Japanese-owned and have been chartered from Eastern Car Liner Ltd (ECL), Tokyo.
Base ports covered by the Rickmers NCS service are: Moji, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagoya, Guayaquil, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Puerto Bolivar, Guanta, Port-au-Prince, Savannah, Charleston and Philadelphia.
"Rickmers sees this new service as complementing its existing Pearl String vessels which sails eastbound and primarily links Japan, China and Korea with the US Gulf on the transpacific leg of their fortnightly round-the world schedule," the statement said.
Said Rickers sales chief Gerhard Janssen: "The Pearl String ships are running full and the NCS service brings us welcome additional possibilities to serve ports on the north coast of South America and the Caribbean."
He said that until 2001 the line had been operating a monthly service between Europe and Brazil.
Since 2006, Rickmers-Linie has deployed these vessels westbound from the US to Asia. However, since October 2009, Rickmers-Linie has also utilised them eastbound from Asia to the US Gulf and east coast, with the prime focus being on serving the needs of Japanese clients.
Now Rickmers is adding regular calls in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, thus creating a new service to serve the requirements of the markets in Japan, Northern China and South Korea.
Source : HKSG.
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