New & Updated Services

Multiple Carriers & Alliances

Starting the second week of June, the 2M Alliance will inject one vessel to each of the AE5, AE10, AE7, AE55, AE11, AE12, and AE15 services and two vessels to the AE6 service. The reason for this update is “to reduce speeds, providing a needed buffer to absorb schedule challenges, improving reliability, and decreasing the risk of void sailings,” says the carrier. The average transit time of the services is expected to increase by two or three days as a result of the slow-steaming strategy.

Wan Hai/Hapag-Lloyd are dropping the Xiamen port call on their AA7 service. Twelve vessels will be deployed on the service with an average capacity of 8,900 TEU. The new rotation will be: Taipei – Shekou – Cai Mep – Singapore – Colombo – New York – Norfolk – Charleston – Savannah – Cristobal – Shanghai – Ningbo – Taipei.

In addition, CMA CGM, COSCO and OOCL are revising the port rotation of the EPIC/IP1 service on 17 May. The carriers are adding a port call at Dunkirk. The average vessel capacity deployed for this service is 9,000 TEU in the form of nine vessels. The new rotation is: Jebel Ali – Abu Dhabi – Karachi – Nhava Sheva – Mundra – Jeddah – Marsaxlokk – Tangier – Southampton – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven – Antwerp – Dunkirk – Le Havre – Algeciras – Jeddah – Jebel Ali.

Effective May 2023, COSCO and OOCL will launch a new service to connect New Zealand to Australia. The port rotation of the service will be: Auckland – Melbourne – Bell Bay – Sydney – Auckland. The first vessel on the service will be Contship Yen departing from Auckland on May 24th.

CMA CGM

CMA’s Turkey-Mediterranean service TMX 3 will be revised starting 17 May. This weekly service will deploy two vessels, each with 1,100 TEU capacity, and will have the following port rotation: Malta - Izmir - Gebze - Gemlik - Ancona - Trieste - Koper – Malta.

Evergreen

Evergreen is launching a service connecting Northeast Asia to Southeast Asia this month. The KTH service, which average vessel capacity is yet to be announced, will have the following rotation: Hakata – Ulsan – Busan – Kwangyang – Qingdao – Taipei – Kaohsiung – Haiphong – Kaohsiung – Taipei – Hakata.

Furthermore, Linerlytica reported, Arkas and Evergreen will jointly launch a new North Africa Express/North Africa (NAX/NAFR) connecting Piraeus, Algiers, Valencia, and Casablanca. The service will deploy two ships with sailings every 10 days starting 16 May.

HMM

Starting 25 May, HMM will change the port rotation of the Asia-NAEC FIL service. The revised port rotation of the service will be as follows: Busan – Shanghai – Ningbo – Shekou – Jakarta – Singapore – Kattupalli – Santos – Paranagua – Itapoa – Navegantes – Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Santos – Singapore – Hong Kong – Busan.

The carrier is also launching an intra-Asia service called ICN starting 19 May. There will be six vessels deployed on the service, with an average vessel capacity of 1,700 TEU. The port rotation of the ICN service will be: Busan – Shanghai – Ho Chi Minh – Laem Chabang – Ho Chi Minh – Incheon – Busan – Qingdao – Shanghai – Kaohsiung – Manila – Busan – Dalian – Qingdao – Busan.

MSC

MSC’s Sentosa service will add a port call at Haiphong and a fortnightly port call at Los Angeles starting 18 May. In addition, the carrier is dropping several port calls, including at Qingdao, Shanghai, and Ningbo. The average vessel capacity on the service will be 5,000 TEU, reports Sea Intelligence. The revised port rotation of the service will be as follows (8 port calls): Laem Chabang – Vung Tau – Haiphong – Long Beach (fortnightly) – Los Angeles (fortnightly) – Oakland – Busan – Laem Chabang.

In addition, the carrier is launching a new service starting 24 May, connecting Asia to the Indian Subcontinent. The average vessel capacity on the new Shikra service will be 15,500 TEU. Shikra’s port rotation will be: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Kaohsiung – Shekou – Singapore – Colombo – Nhava Sheva – Mundra – Colombo – Port Klang – Singapore – Tanjung Pelepas – Vung Tau – Qingdao.

Making business even better…

Investments

Israeli carrier ZIM ordered 1,000 reefer containers with sensor technology and further seeks to retrofit a similar volume of its existing reefer fleet, reported Container Management. The sensor technology, called Sekstant Door, is a surveillance system developed by the carrier to facilitate its digital fleet management.

Other

Evergreen sold one of its old containerships for recycling in a first step after the surge of demand during the pandemic, reports Lloyd’s List. The ship Evergreen decided to recycle is the 4,211 TEU Ever Diadem, which was sold to Indian recycles for nearly $510 per light displacement tonne.

ONE joined the list of carriers to stop collecting detention and demurrage fees when a US marine terminal is closed, said the Journal of Commerce. ONE announced that effective 1 June it will not levy detention and demurrage charges if the terminal is “completely closed or inaccessible.”