The Grimaldi Group of Naples has announced that, less than a year after its debut, the maritime line launched between the Far East and West Africa has been enhanced both in terms of the fleet employed and through the addition of a regular call at the port of Durban in South Africa.
“Thanks to the deployment of four state-of-the-art con-ro ships (including G5-class units), the service now features departures every fifteen days from the Chinese ports of Ningbo and Taicang-Shanghai to Durban, and subsequently from the South African port to Lagos,” announced Grimaldi. “Speed, capacity, and efficiency are once again the distinctive features of this regular link dedicated to the transport of containers, rolling freight, and project cargo between China, South Africa, and Nigeria.”
The transit time offered by the Grimaldi Group from China to Durban “is the best on the market: only 18 days,” assures the Neapolitan shipping company. “Equally advantageous is the transit time between the South African port and that of Lagos, at only nine days. The call at the port of Durban thus becomes a nerve center for national trade flows, both for imports from China and for exports to West Africa.”
Through transshipment at the Ptml terminal in Lagos, the largest ro-ro terminal in West Africa, owned by the Grimaldi Group, cargo from China and South Africa can continue its journey by sea to the main ports of West Africa (including Abidjan, Tema, Douala, Dakar, Casablanca) and South America (particularly the Brazilian ports of Santos and Paranaguá).
