Cosiarma has chartered the two sister reefer ships ‘Carmel EcoFresh’ and ‘Carmel Bio-Top’ previously employed by Agrexco; The new service will offer excellent transit times, large allocation of reefer space in holds and containers and more reefer plugs
Italy's Cosiarma S.p.A., Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. and Cosmed announced last week a joint agreement for a new Liner Service in the Mediterranean. The service will start from week 41 on October 10th,2011.
Cosiarma, a company belonging to GF Group, has chartered the two sister reefer ships ‘Carmel EcoFresh’ and ‘Carmel Bio-Top’ previously employed by Agrexco in the service between Israel and the West Mediterranean.
The ships will be jointly employed in a regular liner service with weekly, fixed-day sailings and the following itinerary: Haifa – Ashdod – Sטte – Genoa – Naples – Haifa. According to statement issued in Israel the ships will be renamed Cala Pira and Cala Paradiso, according to the traditional choice of names of Cosiarma for its fleets.
Each ship is able to load around 4.100 pallets of fruit and vegetables in hold and TEU 630 on deck, with 144 reefer plugs and has a service speed of 21 knots.
The new service will offer excellent transit times, large allocation of reefer space in holds and containers and more reefer plugs, which will support and assist the customers with their logistics needs.
Cosiarma S.p.A. manages over 1,800 reefers, 2 container vessels of TEU 2,700 and 4 large reefer vessels (double side loaders) with 10,000 pallet capacity, plus TEU 560 on-deck. The 4 reefer vessels are used exclusively for the GF Group's Orsero banana/fruit service from Colombia/Costa Rica to Vado.
