INTRA-ASIA carrier MCC Transport has started a new weekly Indonesia-Japan Service (TS4) that links the ports of Indonesia directly with those in Japan, Taiwan and South China. The TS4 service offers shippers fast and direct product from Japan, Taiwan and Indonesia to Hong Kong; direct service from Hong Kong to Jakarta (six-days transit time); direct ser...
CHENG LIE NAVIGATION CO (CNC), the intra-Asia arm of CMA CGM, and Hong Kong's TS Lines (TSL) plan to commence a new joint service connecting China to Ho Chi Minh City (NCX). The NCX will cover Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Hong Kong (HIT & Midstream), Shenzhen-Shekou, Ho Chi Minh City (Cat Lai), Hong Kong (HIT & Midstream), Dalian. The...
SINGAPORE's Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container shipping company APL will commence calls on June 29 at Shenzhen's Chiwan Container Terminal on the new Pacific Coast Express (PCE) service. Its service rotation will be Shenzhen-Chiwan, Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Yokohama, San Pedro Bay, Oakland, Hong Kong and back to Shenzhen-Chiwan. (Source:www.sche...
DANISH shipping giant Maersk Line, together with France's CMA CGM will add a new Asia-Europe service, the AE8 from July, creating an alternative for shippers needing fast transit to north Europe. By offering direct calls to the Le Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge, Maersk said it will provide a more competitive selection of departures and improve...
DANISH shipping giant Maersk will launch on June 21 a second Far East-Mexico- Balboa, Panama service deploying an undetermined number of 4,000-5,000 TEU ships. The new AC-3, augmenting the existing AC-2 service, will rotate from Qingdao, Kwangyang, Yokohama, Lazaro Cardenas, Balboa and back to Qingdao with a seven-week turnaround. The existing AC-2 depl...
THE Containership Company (TCC) is not practicing super slow steaming (SSS) on its newly launched Taicang-Los Angeles Great Dragon service. The smallest of the five ships currently deployed on the service, the 2,564-TEU Taicang Dragon will be phased out from 23 June. The TCC service will then be run with four ships, with the average service speed increase...
FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 2 million TEU in May, an increase of 15.2 per cent over the 1.8 million in May of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported an 15.4 per cent increase in container movement in May, having handled 2.4 million TEU compared to 2.1 million TEU in May of last year. (source:w...
GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has revealed it will raise rates on shipments from the Far East to Europe from August 1. The "emergency rate restoration" involves an increase of US$400 per TEU on all cargo from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and south east Asia. MSC rival Maersk Line has already set a peak season surcharge of $750 to $1,200 p...
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