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.
UBSL Caribbean Line’s head office will be in Capelle aan den IJssel in the Netherlands and will call on the existing fleet of its joint venture partners, BOCS and UAL.
Together, the new service can draw on 21 multipurpose vessels ranging from 4,354-33,000 dwt capable of lifting up to 360 tonnes. The service will start with monthly sailings, and regular loading port calls will consist of Aberdeen and Antwerp with other ports along the route on inducement.
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 clientèle 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.”
Harald Maas, director of UAL, added: “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.”
