Services/Sailings

ONE will proceed with the launch of the new West India North America Express (WIN) service on 9 May 2024 on an extended routing through the Cape of Good Hope with changes to the original rotation first announced in January 2024. The revised WIN service will call at Port Qasim, Hazira, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, New York, Savannah, Jacksonville, Charleston, Norfolk, Port Qasim, with the calls at Damietta (westbound and eastbound), Algeciras (westbound) and Jeddah (eastbound) omitted due to the divers

Maersk will relaunch its FE-USEC Transpacific TP20 service from April 2024. The new TP20 service will call at Qingdao, Shanghai, Yantian, Panama Canal, Newark, Baltimore, Houston, Panama Canal, Qingdao on a revised rotation that will be different from the last version of the service which called at Jakarta, Cai Mep, Shanghai, Ningbo, Busan, Panama Canal, Mobile, New York, Suez Canal, Jakarta. The TP20 was first launched by Maersk in July 2021 and operated until February 2023 when it was withraw

Folk Maritime will team up with CMA CGM to launch a new North Red Sea (NRS)/North Red Sea Express (NRX) service from 9 April 2024. The NRS/NRX will call at Jeddah, Neom, Sokhna, Aqaba, Yanbu, Jeddah using 2 ships of 1,600-2,000 teu, starting with the Folk Maritime chartered 2,045 teu JIN SHUN HE, followed a week later by the 1,641 teu APL SAIPAN from CMA CGM. Folk Maritime is a new carrier established on 26 February 2024 in Riyadh to operate feeder and short sea services connecting ports in  S

Medkon Lines have launched a new Espana Express (ESX) service connecting Tunisia and Spain from 11 March 2024. The ESX will call at Sfax, Rades, Valencia, Barcelona, Sfax using the 698 teu MEDKON CANAKKALE on a 10 day frequency.

THE Alliance will reinstate the Asia-US East Coast 4 (EC4/SUEZ1) service from 15 April 2024 after a 6 month suspension. The EC4 was withdrawn in November 2024 for the winter slack season and will return with a new rotation calling at Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Yantian, Cai Mep, Singapore, Norfolk, Savannah, Charleston, New York, Singapore, Kaohsiung with the former call at Hong Kong omitted and divert from the Suez to the Cape route on both its eastbound and westbound voyages. The new EC4 service wil

THE Alliance will reinstate the FE-US West Coast Pacific North 3 (PN3) service from 19 April 2024. The service was withdrawn in October 2023 for the slack winter season but will return after a 7 month break. The new PN3 will call at Hong Kong, Haiphong, Yantian, Shanghai, Busan, Vancouver, Tacoma, Busan, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong retaking the rotation of the former PN3 service with the addition of a new call at Haiphong. The first sailing is scheduled at Hong Kong on 19 April 2024 with the 13,788 t

COSCO and Evergreen have separately launched emergency loaders to connect North Europe with the Med port of Piraeus to evacuate containers and provide ad hoc connections for cargo to and from the Med region that have been affected by the diversions of the OCEAN Alliance's Asia-North Europe services to the Cape route. COSCO has deployed the 13,092 teu COSCO DEVELOPMENT on the Zeebrugge,Piraeus,Zeebrugge shuttle run since 4 February 2024 on a monthly service. Evergreen has also deployed the 2,88

Roro specialist CLdN has launched a new Rotterdam-Ireland Lolo service from 18 March 2024 calling at Rotterdam, Dublin, Cork, Rotterdam. The new service will provide 2 sailings per week using 2 newly chartered 962 teu ships - ANDROMEDA J and PAVO J. The service will call CLdN's newly acquired Distriport terminal in Rotterdam with sailings departing Rotterda every Thursday and Saturday to complement CLdN's existing Roro services between the Netherlands, UK and Ireland.

The new OCEAN Alliance Day 8 network starting in April 2024 will drop one of the 7 Far East-Europe services that they current operate. The affected service is the Far East North Europe NEU3 service (branded respectively by COSCO/OOCL, CMA CGM and Evergreen as the AEU7/LL3/FAL7/NE7) calling at Xiamen, Nansha, Hong Kong, Yantian, Cai Mep, Singapore, Zeebrugge, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Port Klang, Singapore, Xiamen with the wayport call at Piraeus omitted since January due to the diversion of the servic

Peak Shipping, the Xiamen based affiliate of Summit Shipping, has launched a new China-Yemen Express (CYE) service connecting Ningbo, Shekou, Port Klang, Aden, Djibouti with the 713 teu JI ZHE 2 from 28 January 2024. Summit Shipping Line was established in Singapore in October 2019 as a subsidiary of the Xiamen Port Group. It operated initially as a NVOCC (Non-Vessel Owning Common Carrier) using slots from common feeder and linehaul operators in the Intra-Asia and South Asia routes. It began it