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Swaping slots on loop service

20 Mayıs 2013 Pazartesi 18:06

BANGKOK's Regional Container Line (RCL) is to swop slots on the China-Jebel Ali leg of Far East-Middle East service, FMX/AGX 2, operated jointly by Hanjin, UASC and CSAV Norasia.

Asia SAEC Service Reshuffles SIX shipping giants, CMA CGM, Maersk, Hamburg Sud, CSAV, China Shipping and Hanjin, will restructure Far East to South America east coast services with three new joint strings from July.		US$1,000 per TEU July 1 raise GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd, the world's sixth largest carrier, has announced it will increase the rates for westbound Asia-Europe trade by US$1,000 per TEU with effect from July 1.

OOCL hikes rate US$200/TEU HONG KONG's Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will implement an Asia to New Zealand rate hike of US$200 per TEU from July 1.		First Port Call in Busan On 30 April, Ebba Maersk made her first port call in Busan, South Korea. The vessel, with a capacity of 15,001 TEU, is now including Busan on the AE10 service to North Europe.

MOL starts Asia-Mexico Express JAPAN's biggest carrier MOL has announced its new Asia-Mexico Express Service (AME) by offering a new weekly service operated by Hapag-Lloyd, departing Ningbo on June 24.		Majors shift to Suez THE Panama Canal expects a 2.4 per cent loss in Asian cargo volume this fiscal year as major shipping lines shift to the Suez Canal to reach the consumer rich-US east coast, the canal administrator said.

To replace current SZX loop SINGAPORE's APL, the world's ninth largest carrier, recently announced it will revamp its transpacific service by using its AZX service to replace the current SZX loop in late May.		Maersk to raise rates from June MAERSK Line will increase rates for dry shipments on its trade from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to East Africa starting June 1.

Bahri Abha Makes Its Maiden Call The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announced that its General Cargo Vessel Bahri Abha made its maiden call to Jacksonville Port Blount Island Marine Terminal on 6th May 2013 to load vehicles and other cargoes headed to the Middle East.		30-day Panama service ZIM America has announced it is revising the port rotations of its ZCP Shanghai-Norfolk service to include the Port of Virginia from June 15 with the sailing of the 4,839-TEU Zim Mediterranean.

ZIM Includes Port of Norfolk ZIM announced that ZIM Container Service Pacific (ZCP) is adding the port of Norfolk to its route, starting mid-June.		New Russia-Finland service HANJIN Shipping has announced that it is launching a new Russia-Finland (RFS) service from the middle of May that will be jointly operated with Cosco and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, with each partner providing one 1,300 TEU vessel.

Bumps up to 9,000-TEUers EVERGREEN and Cosco have begun to replace their eleven 3,400-TEU to 4,200-TEU ships with the first vessel replacement of two in the 8,000-9,000-TEU range to join the Far East-East Coast South America service (ESA).		Sails from Jiangsu to US A Dutch semi-submersible specialised heavy lift vessel Tyer carrying four large container cranes sailed from Jiangsu's Nantong to the United States of America, reports Xinhua.

G6 to launch two new services CONTAINER shipping lines belonging to the G6 Alliance (APL, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, MOL, NYK and OOCL) are commencing two new Far East-US east coast services via Suez starting May 17 with slots taken by Zim.		New ships on Asia-Europe run EVERGREEN LINE's tenth and eleventh 8,452-TEU newbuildings in a total series of 30 L-type containerships have been put into service on the carrier's Far East-Europe routes.

Evergreen changes services TAIWAN's Evergreen is making changes to its transpacific service network by starting a weekly direct service linking central China with the US west coast and arranging slot exchanges with partners.		Rickmers-Linie heavylift ships RICKMERS-LINIE's multi-purpose heavy lift vessel, the Baltic Winter, has successfully transported from Bangladesh to Denmark a 470 tonne, 50-metre-long ferry with a breadth of 11 metres that is capable of carrying 28 cars and 147 passengers.

Humboldt joins Asia-Europe THE CMA CGM Alexander Von Humboldt, a 16,000-TEU newbuilding owned by the French shipping line but sailing under the British flag, has made her debut on the Asia-Europe tradelane, departing from Busan and deployed on the French Asia Line (FAL 1) service.		SeaSpan orders ChartCo INDEPENDENT owner of container ships, SeaSpan Corporation, has placed an order with ChartCo to fit its navigation data management system across the entire fleet after a period of evaluation and trials.