We are pleased to advise that we have been able to charter the MV Reinbeck on our ATX service to the USA, schedule as follows;
ETD Southampton 1st July
ETA New York 9th July
ETA Norfolk 11th July
DG Cut off for Southampton Thursday 28th June, at 10:00 hrs.
AMS Cut off for Southampton Thursday 28th June, at 12:00 hrs
Many of you may be familiar with this vessel which was previously deployed on our GEX3 service from Liverpool to Montreal. OOCL has secured this vessel to fill in where other Grand Alliance (GA) vessels on the ATX service loop have been phased out to other services. This temporary charter will enable us to offer a normal service to our customers over the next few weeks. It will also enable us to re-open bookings on other services loops and destinations (which had been closed).
Accordingly we can now once again accept bookings as normal to most East coast destinations including Halifax, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Houston, and the West Coast ports of Long Beach & Oakland.
Whilst OOCL has chartered this vessel, we are sharing allocation with our Grand Alliance partners as this is one of the strengths of an alliance. However OOCL will retain the largest portion of available space in order to offer services as normal until we secure the long term charter of a permanent replacement ship. Accordingly we request customers book with us as early as possible, so as to ensure we secure space to your requirements and avoid disappointment.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this difficult period, and would like to reassure you the current difficult process of changes being implemented now is being made in order to strengthen and give improved flexibility to our service offering both in the near and long term.
Should you have any further questions please contact your nearest OOCL office, or OOCL sales representative who will be happy to assist you further. We thank you for your continued support, patience and understanding during this period and hope we can look forward to receiving your booking for this and future ATX vessels.
