Maersk Line and Hamburg Sued have decided to join forces on a restructured service. The key features of the new service include:

Northbound: weekly scheduled calls in the south, southeast and northeast regions of the Brazilian coast, with faster transit times from Santos to New York and from Brazilian northeast (Pecem) to East Coast North America. The service offer direct weekly calls both Buenos Aires and Montevideo on a weekly basis.

Southbound: weekly scheduled calls in six ports on the East Coast of North America; dedicated Santos and Suape southbound call . Direct service providing calls from the East Coast of North America to Montevideo and Buenos Aires on a weekly basis

The first northbound departure will be the Cap San Antonio sailing from Buenos Aires on 13 April 2007. The first southbound departure will be the Cap San Marco sailing from New York on 16 April 2007.

The port rotation of the new service will be New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Charleston, Jacksonville, Port Everglades, Puerto Cabello, Suape, Santos, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Santos, Pecem, and New York.
The present NASA service in cooperation with Mitsui O.S.K. and APL will be discontinued as of same date. The last voyages on the current NASA service will be:

Southbound: Maersk Newark with Charleston as the last loading port with estimated time of departure 26 March 2007

Northbound: Maersk Newark with Santos as the last loading port with estimated time of departure 14 April 2007

The restructuration result in less capacity available in the trade.