Evergreen, Maersk deploy slow steaming to two more services

Evergreen Line, Taiwan, is to extend the time it takes for its China Europe service to complete one round trip by seven days. The service will now take ten weeks to complete.

In addition, a tenth ship will be added to the service, the 6,332TEU ‘Ever Elite’. The vessel will join the nine 7,024TEU ships already in the service.

"The ‘Ever Elite’ became a surplus ship further to the seasonal capacity reduction on the Evergreen's China-California TPS service, with the five 6,300TEU units replaced by 4,200TEU units in October," said a report by Alphaliner.

In a related development, Maersk Line and Safmarine have stretched their Far East-South Africa service (Safari Loop 1) from seven to eight weeks and have added an eighth 5,000TEU ship to the service

The service rotation for the Safari Loop 1 remains unchanged, with port of calls at: Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian – Tanjung Pelepas – Durban – Port Elizabeth – Cape Town – Port Louis – Tanjung Pelepas – Hong Kong – Shanghai.

Source: baird maritim