News / London Gateway wins a call on revamped Hapag-Lloyd / MOL West Africa service

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Next week, Japanese carrier MOL ends its direct Algeciras-West Africa (ARS) service and will merge it into a North Europe-West Africa offering operated in a vessel-sharing arrangement (WAX) with Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd.

In order to accommodate Mediterranean traffic from the culled service, in which Hapag-Lloyd is already a slot charterer, the WAX vessels will call at the Spanish hub port on both north and southbound legs.

However, as a result of the restructure, West African shippers at Cotonou, Benin, will see their direct ...