A strong table grape export season paved the way for Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) to adjust its South Africa-North West linking service to the Port of Cape Town for January and February.<\/p>\n
This was confirmed by Zane Godwin, commercial executive for MSC.<\/p>\n
According to Fresh Plaza, the Eastern Cape Express will be renamed the Western Cape Express and will replace the Port of Gqeberha with Cape Town.<\/p>\n
It follows a season that began with robust production forecasts of 79.4 million 4.5 kg-equivalent boxes, slightly up on the previous year, driven by harvests from regions such as the Northern Provinces, Orange River, Olifants River, Berg River and Hex River.<\/p>\n
Early volumes exceeded last year\u2019s figures by 15-20%, Fruit Today reported in December.<\/p>\n
The change is intended to shorten transit times to north-west European ports, including London Gateway and Rotterdam, and will affect shipments originating from South Africa during this period.<\/p>\n
The first vessel to operate under the revised service will be the MSC Tania.<\/p>\n
The updated service rotation will run from Walvis Bay to Cape Town, then onward to San Pedro, London Gateway, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre.<\/p>\n
According to the carrier, the adjustment is designed to improve schedule efficiency on this corridor during the early 2026 export window, including for temperature-controlled cargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong table grape export season paved the way for Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) to adjust its South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102],"class_list":{"0":"post-9482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}