In our continued efforts to provide you with high value service, we are pleased to announce our new ECX Service. We will consolidate our present services from North Europe to South America East Coast. The new ECX Service is planned to commence on September 27, 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the southbound departure of M/V ¡°TBN¡± - voyage 701S.

The new ECX Service, covering the major markets in North Europe and East Coast South America, will be a weekly service with fixed scheduled arrivals and departures. Hapag-Lloyd will become a major vessel provider in this trade and will operate four out of nine modern and homogeneous vessels with a capacity of approx. 9,000 TEU and 1,325 reefer plugs each.

The new rotation of the service will be as follows:

The new ECX Service will offer you the best market coverage in this trade with mainly direct connections and highly competitive transit times in both directions:

Transit Time (in days) ¨C Southbound

Transit Time (in days) ¨C Northbound

*) Feeder connecting to/from Zarate (Argentina)

We will provide you in due course with further information about the new ECX Service.

We are looking forward to continue the valuable relationship and the reliable service we have been providing to you.