Nikolas

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding calls at North Europe ports to its Angola Express Service in another sign of West Africa's allure to players in the container trade. The Geneva-based company is added six ships with capacities of 2,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units to the service, which will also begin to call at Rotterdam, Antwerp and Bassens, France. The first sailing will take place Sept. 18 with the departure of the MV Nikolas from RotterdamThe new port rotation will be as follows: Rotterdam, Antwerp, Bassens, Sines, Casablanca, Las Palmas, Conakry, Dakar, Luanda and back to Rotterdam.Carriers and terminal operators have shown an interest in West Africa of late, with CMA CGM adding services and establishing logistics hubs while APM Terminals is the midst of large-scale developments in Ghana and Nigeria. Source: Journal of Commerce

3 - 4 months charter extension, trading East Mediterranean, Italia Maritima