EVERGREEN WILL drop a call at Oakland and re-introduce a call at Portland on its Hong Kong, Taiwan-US west coast service, known as the HTW.
Oakland will continue to be served through other transpacific connections, with the move being made in August, only four months after Evergreen decided to initiate its previous service changes.
Dropping Oakland from this service is believed to be part of Evergreen's plan to launch an All Water Service in July, between Asia and the US east coast direct through the Panama Canal.
As from early August, Evergreen will drop the Oakland call, and concentrate US/Canada west coast shipments on this service over Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma and Vancouver. The HTW deploys five 5,364-TEU ships, and from August the service rotation will be Pusan, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Portland, Vancouver, Tacoma, and Pusan. Transit time for Tacoma to Pusan will be 11 days. For Hong Kong to Los Angeles, 12 days.
Kent and Seaboard Marine team up
TWO OF the biggest North American niche market operators, Kent Line of New Brunswick, Canada, and Seaboard Marine in Miami, have a new vessel sharing agreement linking Saint John and the US east coast with the Caribbean and northern central America.
Three 1,000-TEU ships will be deployed on the new service. Two of the ships will be Kent Line's and one Seaboard's. Calling locations on the new service will be: Philadelphia, Saint John, Miami, San Juan, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad, Rio Haina, Jamaica and back to Philadelphia. For Kent Line, this will be the first direct service between the US east coast/New Brunswick and Miami.
Lykes and TMM in transpac tie-up
LYKES AND TMM Lines will launch a new transpacific service later this month, linking Central and South America with Asia. The new service will complement the Pacific Sprint service run by the two lines under the Americana Ships banner.
The service will begin as a fortnightly link with five ships, each around 1,200 TEU capacity, but is expected to eventually upgrade to weekly. Known as the Asia-South America service, it will offer customers much-improved transit times to and from the Central and South American marketplace.
More importantly, the service will include a call at Shanghai, the first time either line has made direct calls at the port.
Serving this important trade lane to date, Lykes and TMM have trans-shipped over Manzanillo, Mexico, through the Pacific Sprint service.
Previously, TMM's own transpacific service covered a small percentage of the new port range offered by the Asia-South America service. China was not included in that coverage.
The port rotation of the new Asia-South America service, as it will be known, will be: Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pusan, Los Angeles, Manzanillo, Puerto Quetzal, Puerto Caldera, Guayaquil, Callao, Iquique, San Antonio, Callao, Bueneventura, Puerta Caldera, Salina Cruz, Manzanillo, Los Angeles, and Kaohsiung.