The Port of Lázaro Cárdenas receives Hapag-Lloyd ships from Asian ports

Press release from Puerto Lázaro Cárdenas

This is a machine translation of the original release, issued in Spanish

Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, June 10, 2024.- The Lázaro Cárdenas Port has been selected to be part of the ports of call on the itinerary of the Hapag-Lloyd EC2 service, with unloading operations of import containers from Asian ports , at the APM Terminals container terminal in Lázaro Cárdenas.

The Lázaro Cárdenas Port is the only one in the Mexican Pacific that will receive the ships of this service, which has a weekly frequency and calls at five Asian ports in northern and central China and Korea, before arriving at the Lázaro Cárdenas Port and ending in North America.

This service is made up of 12 vessels with a nominal capacity of 13,470 TEUS, 366 meters in length and 141,077 GRT. All vessels are operated by Hapag-Lloyd.

This week, the first vessel of this service, the MV UMM SALAL, arrived at the APM Terminals Lázaro Cárdenas container terminal, with import cargo that is beginning to expand its maritime services to take advantage of the advantages in location and capacity of the Lázaro Cárdenas Port attracted by nearshoring and the T-MEC.

With this new integration, Hapag-Lloyd, a German maritime transport and container ship operation company, ratifies its confidence and strong commitment to the movement of containerized cargo through the Lázaro Cárdenas Port and its specialized terminals such as APM Terminals México.