French shipping giant CMA CGM is upgrading services between north Europe, the Mediterranean and West Africa by offering two weekly loops instead of one, and specialising its EURAF 1 and EURAF 2 services.

To continue improving its offer and to meet its African and European customers' needs, CMA CGM has announced the specialisation of its EURAF 1 and EURAF 2 services.

The upgrade will offer improved reliability and punctuality, with a new calls on Hamburg and London Gateway to ports to Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal as well as two weekly calls on Antwerp, the company said.

CMA CGM will still benefit from connections Worldwide with calls on Tangiers and "with the entire African continent thanks to the group's bespoke intermodal solutions and logistics expertise".

The EURAF 1 service will deploy six 3,500-TEU vessels ships on a weekly rotation through Dunkirk, Antwerp, Le Havre, Montoir, Tangiers, Dakar, Abidjan, Dakar, Tangiers and Dunkirk, where it starts from January 22 with the sailing of 3,108-TEU CS Discovery.

The EURAF 2 service will deploy six 2,600-TEU vessels on a weekly rotation through Antwerp, Hamburg, London Gateway, Tangiers, TinCan, Tema, Abidjan and Antwerp, starting with the voyage of the 2,478-TEU Frisia Helsinki from Antwerp on January 25.