News / Walvis Bay comes into play as MSC redesigns southern Africa network

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Fresh from acquiring control of the New Container Terminal, in the Namibian port of Walvis Bay, via a 25-year operating concession, MSC has unveiled a redesigned southern Africa network.

The world’s largest container shipping line said today it would develop Walvis Bay into a transhipment hub for southern Africa cargo, although it would also continue to use Cape Town as a partial transhipment hub for its deepsea NWC (Europe)-South Africa service.

“Walvis Bay will become our new transhipment hub in Southern Africa ...