Maersk To Call Colombia Banana Port
December 10, 2009Maersk Line is launching the first scheduled container service to call at Turbo, Colombia’s main banana export port.
The Danish ocean carrier will add a weekly call at Turbo to its Expreso service starting Friday, December 11.
This will give Colombian banana exporters a direct weekly service into the US Gulf coast with calls at Houston and a weekly connection to the US west coast via Los Angeles.
There will also be a weekly service to Europe via Manzanillo, Panama.
“Until now, no container carriers have made regular calls at Turbo - leaving exporters without a containerized option and reliant either on the banana boats that do call at Turbo or other ports that require costly road haulage,” Maersk said.
- Bruce Barnard, The Journal of Commerce Online.
