THE Alliance carriers (Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, ONE and Yang Ming) have ended the Cape
of Good Hope routing on the eastbound (backhaul) legs of the FE2, FE3 and FE4
services from North Europe to Asia that started since November 2022 and have
switched back to the regular route via the Suez Canal.
The last FE2 sailing to take the Cape route was the 19,870 teu AL ZUBARA that
departed from Rotterdam on 5 March 2023 after 10 consecutive sailings that
skipped the Suez route.
The Cape routing was already en