Hapag-Lloyd to end long-run NWX to make north west transpac loop

GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd has announced it is breaking up its long-run service between Europe, the Far East and the US north west.


The container shipping line is changing its NWX/Loop B service into a simple transpacific string from north east Asia to the Pacific north west, called NWX, it announced in a notice to trade. That would leave a separate Asia-Europe string to be named Loop B, part of the Grand Alliance offerings.


Hapag Lloyd's long-run service deploys 17 of its ships in the 8,699 TEU range, following a rotation of Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, Busan, Vancouver, Seattle, Vancouver, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and back to Busan.


The carrier didn't release details about the Loop B rotation, but it said its functioning Asia-Europe NWX/Loop B rotation is Busan, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen-Da Chan Bay, Singapore, Hamburg, Antwerp, Southampton, Jeddah, Jebel Ali, Singapore, Shenzhen-Da Chan Bay, Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao and Busan.


Fellow Grand Alliance partners NYK and OOCL are on the service, while APL, MOL, Hyundai and Zim from The New World Alliance take slots.
(Source:http://www.schednet.com)