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USBL Adds Service to Caribbean, ECSA

[ November 22, 2024   //   Gary G Burrows ]

UBSL, who for years has operated liner service from the Mediterranean and Black Sea to West Africa, has expanded into servicing the Caribbean and the East Coast of South America.
UBSL Caribbean Line is a joint venture between BOCS Bremen and Universal Africa Lines. UBSL Caribbean Lines head office will be based in Capelle /d Ijssel in the Netherlands and will use the existing fleet of its joint venture partners, BOCS and UAL.
The new service draws on 21 multipurpose vessels ranging from 4,354 to 33.000 deadweight tons, equipped with ships gear up to 360 tonnes lifting capacity.
The service will initially have monthly sailings. Regular loading port of calls will be Aberdeen and Antwerp with other ports along the route on inducement. Discharge ports will be La Brea and Point Lisas in Trinidad, Georgetown Guyana, Paramaribo Suriname, and this service can be further extended to Brazil based on inducement.
“Having the chance to expand trading routes and respectively our network certainly is a great opportunity,” said Björn Hollnagel, managing director of BOCS. “Openness, flexibility and customer proximity have always built the core of our business activities. Our clientele will not only benefit from an extended service, but also from our well-established collaboration with UAL.
“Universal Africa Lines has been running a liner service from the U.S. to the Caribbean and South America already and has seen a growing demand from its clients for a similar service originating in northwest Europe,” said Harald Maas, director, Universal Africa Lines. “So, it was only logical after our joint venture in the Mediterranean that we would start this new adventure together with our good partner BOCS. We will continue to build on our success”

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