West Africa service upgrades

Safmarine has upgraded its SAFWAF
(South Africa–West Africa) MPV
service in order to better serve the
local project cargo market.
Transit times have been improved
and a third vessel introduced to
provide flexibility, additional
capacity and ports of call in the
northern range ports in Nigeria,
Ghana and Equatorial Guinea, says
MPV national sales manager
Mark Day.
The service enhancements are
designed to give South African-based
customers access to new markets and
reduce costs should ports
be congested.
“The idea is to have a flexible
service that limits the number of
calls a single vessel has to make
to a particular port,” he said. The
upgraded service started in April
this year with the sailing of the
Safmarine Soyo.