Services/Sailings

Swire Shipping's New Zealand coastal operator Pacifica Shipping has withdrawn the 1,368 teu TAKUTAI CHIEF from its New Zealand coastal service from 30 August 2024. The ship was first introduced on the service in September 2022 to connect Auckland, Lyttelton, Marsden Point, Tauranga, Auckland. The New Zealand intra-island domestic service will continue to be offered by the 1,732 teu MOANA CHIEF. The TAKUTAI CHIEF will be chartered out by Swire Shipping after completing its drydock on 24 Septemb

Transit Line will add the 1,930 teu TRANSIT TAVAYZA to its Far East-Turkey-St Petersburg (FETLED) service from 29 September 2024, joining the 2,472 teu MYD JIMEI that has been deployed on the same service since May 2024. The FETLED service will call at Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Ho Chi Minh City, Colombo, Ambarli, St Petersburg, Shanghai using the 2 ships from Transit Line on an 76-86 day round trip. Port rotation of the FETLED service

CK Line has launched a new Korea China Haiphong (KCH) service calling at Incheon, Qingdao, Ningbo, Haiphong, Shekou, Incheon from 30 August 2024. The new KCH service turns in 2 week and will operate initially on a fortnightly basis with the 907 teu TC MESSENGER.

MSC will revise 2 of its China-East Coast South America services from September 2024 covering both the eastbound and westbound directions. The revised Santana service will call at Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, Busan, Cristobal, Suape, Salvador, Singapore, Yantian from 14 September 2024 on an eastbound round the world rotation via the Panama Canal and the Cape of Good Hope. The Santana service was revised from a FE-USEC service with the USEC ports omitted from April 2024. Current calls a

Sinotrans has launched a new North China-Philippines (NCP) service calling at Xingang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila (North), Xingang from 22 August 2024. The NCP will turn in 3 weeks using 3 ships of 900-1,200 teu starting with the 1,200 teu KANG QI JIA HONG at Xingang on 22 August followed by the 1,032 teu DONG FANG FU and 907 teu SINOTRANS BEIJING

Maersk will launch a new Far East-Indian Subcontinent 1 (FI1) service calling at Colombo, Laem Chabang, Yantian, Hong Kong, Colombo from September 2024. The service will turn in 4 weeks and will deploy 4 ships of 3,500 teu to 7,800 teu starting with the 4,506 teu DYROS at Colombo on 10 September.

Hapag-Lloyd has merged its South America – Africa Triangle Service (SAT) with the West Europe-West Africa (WWA) into an extended butterfly pattern covering North Europe-Africa-South America-Africa-North Europe starting from June 2024. The integrated SAT/WWA service will call at Paranagua, Santos, Navegantes, Luanda, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Luanda, Tangier Med, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Le Havre, Lisbon, Tangier Med, Tema, Pointe Noire, Luanda, Paranagua turning in 7 to 8 weeks deploying up to 8 ships

The 16,022 teu CMA CGM JULES VERNE has made an eastbound Suez Canal passage on 13 August 2024 and after a stop at Jeddah, the ship passed the Bab al-Mandab Strait on 19 August without any incident. It marks the largest containership to return to the Suez/Red Sea route since February this year, with all the other main carriers still avoiding the passage to avoid attacks on vessels by Houthi militants in Yemen. The CMA CGM JULES VERNE is deployed on the Mediterranean Club Express (MEX) using 15 s

X-Press Feeders have deployed the first 2 of its 1,260 teu methanol dual fuel containerships on the Green Finland X-PRESS (GFX) service connecting Rotterdam, Antwerp, Helsinki, Tallinn, Kotka, Rotterdam. The GFX was launched on 12 July 2024. with the methanol fueled 1,260 teu ECO MAESTRO, with the sistership ECO LEVANT joining the service on 17 August 2024. The 2 ships are part of 14 dual-fuel units that X-Press Feeders have ordered at 3 separate shipyards in China for delivery in 2024-26 that

SeaLead will launch a new Far East-India-Djibouti (FID) service calling at Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Port Klang, Colombo, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Djibouti, Colombo, Shanghai from 5 September 2024. The FID service will turn in around 6 weeks, with 2 ships currently scheduled to join the service in September - the 4,636 teu ZHONG GU CHENG DU and ZHONG GU NAN CHANG.