BOCS Bremen Overseas Chartering and Shipping has added the 2011-built vessel BOCS Bremen to its liner service.
The vessel has a deadweight capacity of 34,064 tonnes, an overall length of 182.88 m and a breadth of 28.39 m. The ship is equipped with five cranes and has a combined lifting capacity of 80 tonnes.
BOCS Bremen’s first voyage will be from Europe to West Africa.
UAL BOCS Shipping Line (UBSL) is expanding its services to the Caribbean and the East Coast of South America. This follows years of operating a successful liner service between the Mediterranean and Black Sea to West Africa.
Multipurpose carriers active on Africa’s Eastern and Western seaboards face distinctive challenges, the former having had to adopt a wait-and-see approach relating to delayed LNG projects that will generate large-scale project work, the latter facing significant competition from the container shipping business.
BOCS Bremen Overseas Chartering and Shipping (BOCS) and Universal Africa Lines (UAL) are now represented by the newly established African Agency Alliance BV (AAA) in the port of Antwerp, Belgium.
BBC Chartering said that its fifth Lakermax newbuild multipurpose vessel, BBC Santiago, successfully passed sea trials last week.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has issued a ‘refusal of access direction’ to the Netherlands-flagged general cargo ship Marsgracht, banning the ship from entering Australian ports for 180 days.
Vertom has placed an order for four 10,700 dwt geared tweendeckers at Chowgule Shipyards in India.
