Services/Sailings

The 11,388 teu CMA CGM COLUMBA is scheduled to make an eastbound Suez transit on 23 January 2025 after having passed through Suez on 6 December 2024 on its westbound voyage for the Europe Pakistan India Consortium (EPIC) service that CMA CGM jointly operates with COSCO and OOCL. A CMA CGM spokesperson said that the 2 Suez voyages were ad hoc sailings and the company is closely monitoring the ongoing developments. The EPIC service has been re-routed to the Cape route since 2024 and currently ope

RCL has added a new RCL North China Straits India (RNI6) service by joining Wan Hai and Interasia Lines (IAL) on their existing China-India 2 (CI2) / Interasia China-India (ICI) service that calls at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Port Klang(WP), Port Klang(NP), Nhava Sheva, Cochin, Port Klang(NP), Qingdao. RCL will add the 5,888 teu AKA BHUM to the service which turns in 42 days using 6 ships of 4,200 to 5,900 teu.

HMM and ONE will launch a new Far East-East Coast South America service from April 2025 to connect Busan, Chiwan, Singapore, Rio Grande, Santos, Santa Catarina, Singapore, Hong Kong, Busan. The service will be branded as the Far East-Latin America 2 (FL2) by HMM and East Coast South America Express 2 (SX2) by ONE. In conjunction to the launch, the 2 partners will also offer a new dedicated River Plate feeder service to connect Rio Grande with Buenos Aires and Montevideo to cater for Argentina a

Amu Shipping has launched a new feeder service connecting Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kismayo, Mogadishu from 13 January 2025 using the newly acquired geared 1,083 teu AMU JAMEEL (ex BOSTON TRADER build 2002) that has just completed its positioning trip from China carrying cargo from Qingdao, Ningbo and Nansha to Kenya and Somalia.

The OCEAN Alliance carriers will have the largest market share and widest market coverage in 2025 after they unveiled their Day 9 product that will be launched in April this year. 3 additional Alliance services will be added to their existing service network, giving them a dominant position on the Transpacific market with 15 sailings to the West Coast and 8 sailings to the East Coast. It will also have the widest coverage to North Europe with a 7th service to be added, matching MSC’s coverage t

ONE will join CMA CGM, COSCO and OOCL to operate a new Med-US Transatlantic 4 service branded respectively as AT4/Amerigo/MENA/ATM. The service will call at Salerno, La Spezia, Genoa, Vado Ligure, Valencia, Algeciras, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Miami, Algeciras, Salerno. The new service will replace the existing AL6 that is jointly operated by CMA CGM, COSCO, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd in a cross-Alliance service that also includes Evergreen, Yang Ming, ONE and Zim. The revised AT4/Amerigo/MENA/AT

The 4 Ocean Alliance partners (CMA CGM, COSC, OOCL and Evergreen) have unveiled their new Day 9 product that will start from April 2025, with the addition of 1 new Asia-North Europe service and 2 new Asia-US West Coast services. Details of the new services as follows * Asia-North Europe Loop 3 (NEU3/AEU3/LL3/NE7) calling at Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Yantian, Cai Mep, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Felixstowe, Port Klang, Shanghai * Asia-Pacific Southwest PSW11 (SEA3/PSX) callin

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will roll out 4 new intra-Asia feeder services from February 2025 in conjunction with the launch of the new Gemini Cooperation network, with the following rotation details: * Taiwan Express (TWX) calling at Taichung, Kaohsiung, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Taichung. The service will turn in 14 days using 2 ships of 2,400-2,700 teu starting with the 2,702 teu GABRIELA A at Taichung on 6 February 2025 followed by the 2,433 teu CUL QINGDAO. * China Philippines Feeder (CPF)

Arkas will launch a new Blue Med Service (BMS) calling at Alexandria, Beirut, Lattakia, Mersin, Aliaga, Genoa, La Spezia, Tangier, Casablanca, Valencia, Barcelona, Fos, Genoa, La Spezia, Salerno, Alexandria from February 2025. The BMS will turn in 35 days using 5 ships of 1,400 to 2,400 teu, and will combine Arkas' existing Great Pendulum Service (GPS) that is jointly operated with CMA CGM & Tarros, with the East Med-Morocco Service (EMS) and Spain-East Med (SEM) services that are both jointly

Arkas and Turkon will launch a new service branded respectively as the India Med Service (IMS) and Turkiye-Red Sea-India (TRI) service connecting Ambarli, Evyap, Aliaga, Mersin, Aqaba, Jeddah, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Jeddah, Aqaba, Alexandria, Ambarli from 2 February 2025. The IMS/TRI service will turn in 40 days using 4 ships of 2,400 to 2,800 teu - the 2,474 teu MARTHA A, 2,702 teu GISELE A, 2,478 teu VIVIEN A and 2,846 teu TURKON EGYPT. A 5th ship is expected to join in June 2025, with the freq