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June 20, 2002
MOL Launches New Europe - West Africa Service
MOL has announced that it is to start a new
service between Europe and the West Coast
of Africa end of June, 2002.
The new service has been named as "African
Rainbow Express (ARX)" and will employ
two MOL operated vessels, "MOL Rainbow"
and "MOL Sahara"
MOL can now provide their customers with
a wider choice of port calls and inland destinations
within Europe and Africa.
The new service details are shown below.
(Port of call and rotation)
ARX will be a fixed day bi-weekly service,
and its port of call and rotation will be
SOUTHBOUND
Antwerp (Wednesday/Thursday) - Felixstowe
(Friday) - Le Havre (Saturday/Sunday)
- Dakar (Friday) - Conakry (Sunday) - Abidjan
(Tuesday) - Tema (Thursday)
NORTHBOUND
Abidjan (Saturday) - Dakar (Wednesday) -
Las Palmas (Friday) - Leixoes (Monday)
- Antwerp (Wednesday/Thursday)
Other European ports will be served via transhipment
in Le Havre, and through MOL's own comprehensive
network of services.
Other African ports such as Cotonou, Lome,
and Lagos, will be served via transhipment
in Abidjan onto MOL's already long established
Asia - West Africa Express services (WA1/WA2).
Takoradi, Onne (Port Harcourt) and Douala
will be served by MOL's own coastal feeder
service (CWB).
MOL has already re-enforced its infrastructure
along the West Africa coast to ensure that
the introduction of this new link, is as
smoothly as possible. A dedicated operations
centre in Abidjan, is to handle all transhipment
activities between the different services
including all coastal feeder arrangements.
(Europe - South Africa)
In addition, the new link, also means that
MOL will be able to serve Europe / South
Africa and vice versa, through transhipment
at Abidjan via their Far East services (WA1/WA2).
Major transit time will be as per attached.
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