{"id":12811,"date":"2024-02-16T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=12811"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:31:44","slug":"port-of-virginia-to-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/port-of-virginia-to-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Virginia to Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Port of Virginia is expanding its portfolio of international connections with two new services that connect directly with the Latin American market.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important development because it opens up an opportunity, that previously didn\u2019t exist, to directly do business in some growing, important markets in South and Central America,\u201d said Stephen A. Edwards, CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority.<\/p>\n

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One service is a combined effort by ocean carriers CMA CGM and ONE. The other new service is offered by ocean carrier MSC.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis is going to create an opportunity for perishable commodities and seafood imports coming into Virginia and for exports of products like pork and poultry headed to the west coast of South America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not had a service that called South America\u2019s west coast and the result was most poultry exports moved via transshipment, or to other US East Coast ports. Now this direct service allows us to become more competitive in this area of business in both directions, north- and southbound.\u201d<\/p>\n

One service is a combined effort by ocean carriers CMA CGM and ONE. The CMA Americas XL and the ONE FLX are now linking The Port of Virginia to ports in Columbia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Columbia and Panama.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs ONE expands its North American port coverage on the FLX service, The Port of Virginia will play a key role by allowing us to better serve the South American customer base, especially with the refrigerated market,\u201d said Dan Sheehy, senior vice president, Product & Network at Ocean Network Express (ONE).<\/p>\n

In this particular service, The Port of Virginia is the last stop on the US East Coast allowing exporters more time to get their goods to the port and to the international destination more quickly, Edwards said.<\/p>\n

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Upgraded services will connect cargo owners with several new markets.<\/p><\/div>\n

The other new service is offered by ocean carrier MSC, which has added South and Central American port calls of its Ecuador NWC service to its Scan Baltic service. The expanded service, named the Ecuador \u2013 NWC & Scan Baltic \u2013 USA, calls ports in Bahamas, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru and Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Port of Virginia is expanding its portfolio of international connections with two new services that connect directly with the Latin American market. \u201cThis is an important development because it opens up an opportunity, that previously didn\u2019t exist, to directly do business in some growing, important markets in South and Central America,\u201d said Stephen A…. 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