News / Container shipping rates to West Africa take a dive as carriers use bigger vessels

The port of Luanda will struggle handling the larger vessels

20/01/2016

CMA CGM has started to upgrade its Asia-West Africa ASAF fleet by replacing the 4,200-5,800 teu vessels with a series of 9,000 teu-plus ships.

According to Alphaliner data, the 9,365 teu CMA CGM Danube was phased into the ASAF service on 28 December while the 10,034 ...

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