UBSL is expanding its services to the Caribbean and the East Coast of South America with a new Caribbean Line.
This follows years of operating the successful liner service from the Mediterranean and Black Sea to West Africa and back.
UBSL Caribbean Lines’ head office will be based in Capelle aan den IJssel in the Netherlands and will use the existing fleet of its joint venture partners, BOCS and UAL.
Together, the new service can draw on 21 modern geared MPP vessels ranging from 4.354 dwt to 33.000 dwt, equipped with ships geared up to 360-tonne lifting capacity. The service will start with monthly sailings, and regular loading port calls will consist of Aberdeen and Antwerp with other ports along the route.
Discharge ports will be La Brea and Point Lisas in Trinidad, Georgetown Guyana, and Paramaribo Suriname. 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. We are enthusiastic about this new challenge and look forward to continuing our joint success story.”
“Universal Africa Lines has been running a liner service from the USA to the Caribs and South America already, and has seen a growing demand from its clients for a similar service originating in NW Europe. 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,” said Harald Maas, director of UAL.
Last month, UAL opened an office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
