MSC Announces New Port Call, Revises Canada Gulf service
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Friday, June 17, 2016
MSC’s California Express service is now to feature a new port of call – Manzanillo in Mexico.
The addition brings a significant customer benefit in transit time and reliability, and provides a direct route to the port as part of the route from Balboa to Long Beach.
Previously, the service had offered only a transshipment facility for Manzanillo. The change to the California Express service will come into effect on Saturday 9th July with the vessel MSC ANS MC623A.
MSC has also revealed details of its revised Canada Gulf Bridge service.
The changes, which come into effect from Sunday 19th June, will now feature a Southbound transit from Houston, to the two Mexico ports of Altamira and Veracruz.
The Northbound service will then leave Veracruz, destined for Philadelphia and Montreal.
Providing direct routes to and from Mexico allows MSC to acknowledge the significant change taking place in the manufacturing sector in this part of the globe.
It is estimated that by 2017, as many as one in four American cars will have been built in Mexico.