Carriers adjust their services in response to market dynamics and operational hurdles. Stay informed of upcoming changes with Kuehne+Nagel's carrier service update, published bi-weekly on Sea News and seaexplorer.

New & revised services

Asia ↔ Europe

CMA CGM announced a seasonal service called the French Peak Service between Asia, Northern Europe, and the Mediterranean. The service will be launched on 30 June and will run until early September. Sailing bi-weekly from China, it will alternate between destinations in Northern Europe (Le Havre, Antwerp) and the Mediterranean (Fos-sur-Mer, Malta).

• Carrier service name: French Peak Service
• Port rotation: The service will rotate every 15 days between:

1. Yantian - Vung Tau - Singapore - Le Havre - Antwerp - back to China
2. Shekou - Vung Tau - Singapore - Fos-sur-Mer - Malta - back to China 

• Vessel deployment: 7 vessels of 7,000 TEU average capacity
• First Sailing: APL Oregon, ETD Yantian 30 June

In July, MSC will launch a new service that connects China, Vietnam, and Liverpool.

• Carrier service name: Britannia
• Port rotation: Shanghai - Ningbo - Yantian - Vung Tau - Liverpool - Rotterdam - Antwerp - Hamburg - London Gateway - Singapore - Shanghai
• First sailing: MSC Denisse X, ETD Shanghai 1 July

In mid-June, Hapag-Lloyd revised the rotation on its Indian Ocean Service (IOS) as follows:

• Carrier service name: IOS
• Port rotation: Jebel Ali - Karachi - Nhava Sheva - Mundra - Tanger - Rotterdam - Hamburg - Antwerp - London Gateway - Tanger - Jebel Ali
•  First sailing: Seaspan Hudson, ETD Jebel Ali 17 June

Asia ↔ South and Central America

Maersk will launch a new service that will provide extra coverage for Lazaro Cardenas and Posorja, Ecuador. This service will complement AC2, which will also be revised by removing Posorja from the rotation and swapping the position of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo calls.

• Carrier service name: AC1
• Port rotation: Ningbo - Qingdao - Busan - Lazaro Cardenas - Posorja
• First sailing: Ren Jian 17, ETA Ningbo 1 July

• Carrier service name: AC2
• Port rotation: Shanghai - Qingdao - Busan - Yokohama - Lazaro Cardenas - Manzanillo,MX - Balboa - Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, MX
• First sailing: Maersk Evora, ETA Shanghai 25 June

In July, MSC will launch a new service covering Asia and East Coast South America as follows:

• Carrier service name: Carioca
• Port rotation: Busan - Shanghai - Ningbo - Shekou - Singapore - Rio de Janeiro - Paranagua - Itapoa - Santos - Itaguai - Colombo - Singapore - Busan
• First sailing: MSC Yokohama, ETD Busan 19 July

North America ↔ South and Central America

Due to port congestion in Charleston, Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and MSC will replace Charleston with Savannah on their services connecting North America, South America and Oceania, effective 21 June.

• Carrier service name: OC1 (Maersk), ANP (Hapag-Lloyd), Oceania 2 Pacific Loop
• Port rotation: Philadelphia - Savannah - Panama Canal - Balboa - Tauranga - Sydney - Melbourne - Port Chalmers - Tauranga - Panama Canal - Manzanillo - Cartagena - Philadelphia
• First sailing: Maersk Burton, ETD Savannah 21 June

Intra-Asia

Evergreen revised its service between Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia earlier this month. The carrier dropped port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Batangas, and Manila and added a port call at Cebu. In addition, it changed the order of port calls at Shantou and Kaohsiung. 

• Carrier service name: NSA
• Port rotation: Osaka - Kobe - Moji - Hakata - Ulsan -Taipei - Taichung - Kaohsiung - Cebu - Subic Bay - Kaohsiung - Shantou -Nansha - Hong Kong - Shekou - Osaka
• First sailing: Ever Concert, ATD Osaka 10 June

Intra-Europe

CMA CGM announced enhancements to its NWUK (3 Loops) and SCUK services, connecting Spain with Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands. The carrier will add a fifth vessel to the rotation to provide weekly sailings from Bilbao. The improved services will begin with the departure of the Encounter from Bilbao on 21 June.

• Carrier service name: NWUK - Loop 1
• Port rotation: Bilbao - Liverpool - Greenock - Bilbao

• Carrier service name: NWUK - Loop 2
• Port rotation: Bilbao - Liverpool - Bristol - Bilbao

• Carrier service name: NWUK - Loop 3
• Port rotation: Bilbao - Dublin - Liverpool - Bilbao

• Carrier service name: SCUK
• Port rotation: Bilbao - Tilbury - Rotterdam - Bilbao

Later this month, ONE will launch an intra-Europe service from Greece to Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey.

• Carrier service name: ELT
• Port rotation: Damietta - Beirut - Iskenderun - Piraeus - Limassol - Damietta
• First sailing: Benedikt, ETD Damietta on 29 June

Transpacific

In June, COSCO and OOCL launched a new service to connect Asia to West Coast North America.

• Carrier service name: CPV (COSCO and OOCL)
• Port rotation: Ningbo - Shanghai - Vancouver - Seattle - Lianyungang - Ningbo
• First sailing: COSCO Venice, ETD Ningbo 12 June

Later this month, these two carriers will launch a new service covering Long Beach.

• Carrier service name: SEA3 (COSCO), PSX (OOCL)
• Port rotation: Yantian - Long Beach - Kaohsiung - Xiamen - Yantian
• First sailing: Xin Fei Zhou, ETD Yantian 24 June.

MSC will re-launch its service between China and Long Beach in late June as follows:

• Carrier service name: Mustang
• Port rotation: Yantian - Ningbo - Shanghai - Long Beach - Yantian
• First sailing: MSC Virgo, ETD Yantian 15 July

In June, Wan Hai launched a new Transpacific service connecting China with Long Beach, USA.

• Carrier service name: AA1
• Port rotation: Shekou - Qingdao - Ningbo - Long Beach - Shekou
• First sailing: Wan Hai 361, ATD Shekou 4 June