[vc_row]As of now, Hamburg Süd is offering its customers a new service profile for the SAWC service between South America West Coast, Central America, the Caribbean and North Europe. The weekly connection offers various highlights; for example, competitive transit times with improved lead time from South America into London, and a very competitive transit time into Rotterdam with 25 days from Valparaíso. From Europe, customers benefit, for example, from a direct service to the main South American West Coast markets and to Hamburg Süd’s main transhipment hubs Cartagena, Caucedo and Buenaventura.
“As a premium carrier for reefer shipments, we are constantly improving our services and have invested around $ 350 million in our reefer container fleet in the past three years, making it one of the youngest in the market. Additionally, in the course of 2017, we will begin replacing existing tonnage with high reefer capacity newbuilds. These will be deployed for the EMCS service between Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean, thereby significantly increasing the number of reefer plugs in this service. This will enable us to respond even better and more flexibly to the specific demands of our customers in the region,” explains Mr Peter Frederiksen, Member of the Executive Board of Hamburg Süd.
At Hamburg Süd, a roughly 50-strong, worldwide Global Reefer Competence Team is working on developing state-of-the-art solutions for the shipment of fresh fruit and vegetables and on providing in-depth advice to customers on all questions surrounding reefer transportation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_row]
