CMA plans to restart container transportation to Greater Odesa ports in July

The CMA shipping company may resume container transportation to one of the ports of Greater Odesa in July. Volodymyr Guz, Commercial Director of Global Ocean Link, said this in a blog post on the CTS media. He noted that Maersk container lines have returned today, but this happened through agents.

“Hapag has also returned directly, but through feeder vessels. MSC is bringing its vessel to Odesa in June,” Guz said. He added that CMA will announce the resumption of direct vessel calls in mid-July. “Most of the powerful lines have got in touch, the rest are expected, and the outlook here is positive,” summarized the Global Ocean Link commercial director.

As a reminder, Maersk launched the first container service to the ports of Greater Odesa after the outbreak of full-scale war. It is not yet about the calls of large container ships. Maersk, in cooperation with the Ukrainian company Iteris, will use a vessel with a capacity of 1100+ TEU for transportation. Feeder container transportation will be carried out between the Romanian port of Constanta and the port of Chornomorsk, as in the case of Hapag-Lloyd.

On April 3, 2024, for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale war, a container ship called at one of the ports of Greater Odesa. The containers were being fed to a foreign hub, where they were loaded onto ocean-going container ships of global container lines. According to open sources, the ship called at Chornomorsk. From there, it sailed to the Romanian port of Constanta. And on April 21, the Pros Hope called at the port of Chornomorsk, the first container ship to arrive at the ports of Greater Odesa since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. Not as part of a feeder service, but directly from the original point of departure.