MSC will laucnh a new Osprey service connecting Shanghai, Ningbo, Singapore, Colombo, Ennore, Visakhapatnam, Ningbo from 23 July 2024. The Osprey service will turn in 35 days using 5 ships of 2,000 teu to 3,000 teu starting with the 2,470 teu MSC SOMYA III at Ningbo on 23 July.
MSC will launch a new Dahlia service connecting Shekou, Xiamen, Shanghai, Busan, Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas from 3 August 2024. The new service will complement the Mexicas service that was just launched by MSC in May 2024 with a revised rotation that will call at Xingang, Qingdao, Ningbo, Busan, Manzanillo, Lazara Cardenas with a new call at Xingang added while the previous call at Shanghai will be removed and shifted to the Dahlia service. The first sailing for the new Dahlia service is sche
MSC will launch a new EMUSA service connecting Tekirdag, Gebze, Aliaga, Haifa, Fos, Barcelona, Valencia, Sines, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Savannah, Tekirdag from 20 June 2024. The EMUSA will replace the existing Turkiye/West Med to USA service with new direct calls at Fos and Barcelona, while former calls at Gioia Tauro, Baltimore and Port Everglades are dropped in the new streamlined service. The EMUSA will turn in 7 weeks and will deploy ships of 4,000-6,700 teu starting with the 5,060
MSC will launch a new Carioca service connecting Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Paranagua, Itapoa, Santos, Itaguai, Colombo, Singapore, Busan from 19 July 2024. The FE-ECSA service will turn in 13 weeks starting with the 7,847 teu MSC YOKOHAMA.
MSC will launch a new Mustang service connecting Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Long Beach, Yantian from 14 July 2024. The service will turn in 6 weeks and will deploy 6 ships of 13,000-19,000 teu that was to start with the 16,616 teu MSC LELLA at Yantian on 8 July but the sailing was postponed and replaced by the 13,798 teu MSC BETTINA at Yantian on 14 July. The launch was delayed a second time to 17 July, with the 19,462 teu MSC ELOANE deployed. The Mustang service was first launched by MSC in
MSC will launch a new Asia-North Europe Britannia service calling at Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Cai Mep, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, London Gateway, Singapore, Shanghai from 1 July 2024. The Britannia service will turn in 13 weeks and will deploy up to 13 ships of 7,000-12,000 teu starting with the 9,640 teu MSC DENISSE X. It will be the only Asia-Europe service to have a direct call at Liverpool. The addition of this new service will add 3% to the Asia-North Europe route.
MSC will launch a new North Peru Feeder connecting Balboa, Buenaventura, Paita, Salaverry, Balboa from 6 June 2024 with the 2,572 teu MSC MONTSERRAT III. The service will turn in 2 weeks, with a second ship to be introduced. MSC North Peru feeder service
All of the containership services that were diverted from the Panama Canal since November 2023 have returned to their regular Panama transits as of May 2024. These services were forced to switch to the longer route initially through the Suez Canal and then to the Cape of Good Hope after the Red Sea crisis escalated at the end of 2023. With the increase in the number of neo-panamax transit slots at the Panama Canal from May, carriers are bringing back all of these services to Panama which would
MSC has removed its FE-USEC connections on the Santana service with calls at New York omitted from April 2024. The last New York call on the service was made by the 15,264 teu MSC MARTINA MARIA on 29 March 2024 with subsequent sailings on the Santana shortened to a revised Far East-Mexico-Panama-Dominican Republic service calling at Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Manzanillo (Mexico), Cristobal, Colon (Coco Solo), Caucedo, Yantian. The revised Santana turns in 11 weeks using up to 11 ships
MSC will launch a new Asia-Mexico West Coast (Mexicas) service calling at Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Manzanillo (Mex), Lazaro Cardenas, Qingdao from 15 May 2024. The Mexicas service will turn in 6 to 7 weeks and will deploy ships of 4,000-7,000 teu starting with the 6,492 teu MSC APOLLO at Qingdao on 15 May 2024. MSC Asia-Mexico West Coast (Mexicas) service