CMA CGM initiates direct service to South America

Container shipping company CMA CGM has initiated a direct service from the Port of New Orleans to the west coast of South America. The Med Americas service was launched over the weekend of 12 August, with the arrival of the container ship Pomerenia Sky at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal.

The service is wholly operated by CMA CGM vessels and will offer weekly and direct services to San Antonio, Chile; Callao, Peru; and Buenaventura, Colombia. The new calls are in addition to already established CMA CGM weekly South America direct calls to Guayaquil, Ecuador; and Cartagena, Colombia.

Gary LaGrange, port president and CEO, said, “CMA CGM’s expanded service from New Orleans to the west coast of South America will greatly help strengthen its trading position with our partners in South America. CMA CGM began calling the Port of New Orleans in 2009 and since has grown its business to and from the Port throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe and the Mediterranean.”