RE : ACL / Grimaldi West African direct service

The vessel Grande Benin was involved in an incident while shifting under pilotage from ASI Brooklyn to Bayonne during her NY port call.
Unfortunately this caused significant damage to the vessel and thus the vessel will need to discharge all cargo currently onboard before proceeding directly to dry dock for repairs.
All cargo already loaded in Jacksonville, Savannah, Baltimore, Bayonne and ASI will be discharged in ASI and reloaded on to the Grande Marocco which has been diverted to NY eta 5th January.
The Grande Marocco will also call Bayonne to load the remainder of the original Grande Benin load list and will replace the Grande Benin in Boston (eta 9th January).
The Grande Marocco will arrive on the WAF coast approximately 6 days after the original Grande Benin schedule.

With the above in place the Grande Marocco will only replace the Grande Benin voyage and not call Jacksonville, savannah, Baltimore and not load in NY or Boston as scheduled mid January.

Effectively the next voyage is the Grande Guinea 0111. All efforts are being made to advance this vessel and reduce the gap between the Grande Benin/Marocco combined voyage and the scheduled Grande Guinea, so please check the website for updated schedules. Current eta is 18th January in Jacksonville.

After the Grande Guinea we expect to return to our regular every 14 days schedule.

We apologize for the inconvenience this event has caused. Please contact customer service or your sales representative for further clarification.
Please check our website for updated schedule information.

Regards,
WAF Direct services

If you have business with AEL NJ call and we will keep you updated as best we can.

American Export Lines
John Strozyk
(973) 824-2333
Jstrozyk@aelshipping.com

Good info.

Thanks for the heads up.