DIAMOND LINE

Diamond Line restarts Greece-Croatia shuttle service

COSCO-owned company Diamond Line has announced the relaunch of its Piraeus Rijeka Shuttle (PRS) service.

This weekly service connects Croatia to COSCO’s global service network via COSCO main European hub in Piraeus, Greece.

The 1,800 TEU boxship Vega Daytona will be the first vessel deployed in the relaunched service. The container ship is currently under operations at Piraeus Container Terminal and will arrive Rijeka on 19 August.

“The reinstallment of the service is testament to our dedication...

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Diamond Line and Tarros introduce a new weekly PAE service

Diamond Line, the short-sea and feeder carrier operated by COSCO SHIPPING Europe, along with Tarros Group, is launching a rapid short-sea service connecting Alexandria, Egypt, and Piraeus, Greece to Algiers, Algeria, and vice versa starting June 2024.

This joint weekly service will operate using two 1,000 TEU vessels.

The inaugural voyage of the service, led by Contship Ivy, is anticipated to depart from Alexandria on 28 June and arrive in Algiers on 4 July.

“The new PAE service will further...

https://container-news.com/diamond-line-and-tarros-introduce-a-new-weekly-pae-service/

Diamond Line stocks up NET2 service

Diamond Line, a feeder and short sea carrier, is expanding its NET2 service loop, initially established in 2017 using standard Panamax vessels.

The NET2 service offers direct connections from ports in the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe to the southern regions of Turkey and Levant countries in the East Mediterranean, as well as to Adriatic and Black Sea countries through COSCO SHIPPING’s hub port in Piraeus.

On 18 April, the 280-meter-long vessel named “Xin Xia Men” arrived in Iskenderun,...

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Box lines revise services in Europe

Aiming to optimise and improve their network, several container lines have announced changes in their European services.

First of all, CMA CGM has decided to revise its GTL service again. According to DynaLiners report, the French ocean carrier will remove Benghazi, Malta (one of the visits), Piraeus
and Port Said from the service’s port rotation, while it will include Damietta and Misurata in the rotation.

CMA CGM deploys four 1,200 TEU container vessels on the GTL service with the following...

https://container-news.com/box-lines-revise-services-in-europe/

ICTSI Georgia receives first call of TBX1 service

Georgia’s Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI’s) operation in the Black Sea region, received the inaugural vessel call of COSCO Shipping Lines’ subsidiary, Diamond Line’s TBX1 service.

The 1,200 TEU TBX1 feeder service commenced its weekly calls at BICT in late October with the arrival of AS Fatima. The new service directly calls at the Greek port of Piraeus in the Mediterranean, from where Batumi and the Caucus region are...

https://container-news.com/ictsi-georgia-receives-first-call-of-tbx1-service/

COSCO transfers intra-Europe services to Diamond Line

COSCO SHIPPING Lines (Europe) GmbH will officially transfer the intra-Europe Services to Diamond Line GmbH, as the shipping company had pre-announced on October 10, 2019.

Diamond Line GmbH is the wholly-owned subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Lines (Europe) GmbH and registered in Hamburg.

“Following the transfer we will be in a better position to improve overall customer service and we have identified further synergy advantages in our organization that will be to the benefit of our customers,” COSCO...

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