Maersk Line to add Malta port-call on Ecuador-Ukraine service

Maersk announces it is adding Marsaxlokk port-call on Ecmed service

9 January 2013, 12:00am
by Karl Stagno-Navarra

The loop's new rotation will be as follows: Guayaquil- Balboa-Manzanillo (Panama)-Algeciras-Marsaxlokk-Izmit Korfezi-Istanbul-Yuzhny-Novorossiysk-Istanbul-Izmit Korfezi-Algeciras-Manzanillo (Panama)-Buenaventura-Guayaquil.

The first ship to stop at Marsaxlokk will be the Maersk Buton, on January 27.

Following the addition, transit time on the loop will improve with five to seven days.