News / 2M reinstates AE7/Condor Hamburg call, but no Xmas cheer for UK importers

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The 2M Alliance is to reinstate its AE7/Condor loop call at Hamburg this month, despite announcing the port would be omitted until next year.

It is the first bit of good news for North European shippers for a while – lines have been increasingly dropping scheduled calls, reducing discharge rotations to a skeleton service based on just two or three hubs, supported by lengthy relay delays to final destination ports.

But although the reinstatement of the Hamburg call could be a positive ...