Improved North Europe – West Africa Service

March 17, 2011

In continuous efforts to improve our services to our customers, we are glad to inform that ZIM’s North Europe - West Africa Service (NAF) will now offer an improved weekly service from main ports in North Europe and West Africa.

ZIM is to offer a weekly joint service with Hapag-Lloyd and Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL), providing a much improved transit time.

The new service will be launched on April 5th, with the following ports of call:

Antwerp - Hamburg - Thamesport - Antwerp - Dakar - Tin Can Island - Tema - Abidjan - Amsterdam* - Antwerp

* The Amsterdam call will be seasonal aimed at serving the cocoa trade from West Africa

· The Abidjan call will resume once European sanctions will be lifted.

As such, the service will offer transit times as follows:



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