Services/Sailings

CMA CGM has suspended further sailings on the Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) service that called at Kaohsiung, Shekou, Shanghai, Busan, Seattle, Oakland Kaohsiung with the last sailing from Busan on 15 Sep 2022 with the 9,415 teu CMA CGM MEDEA. The GGB service has been running on an irregular basis since April with departures every 2 weeks due to severe congestion at Oakland and Seattle. The last 4 ships currently deployed on this services have all been re-assigned with the 11,388 teu CMA CGM GEMINI

Unifeeder will add 2 new Scandinavian feeder connections with Wilhelmshaven starting from 11 October 2022. The 1,008 teu IDA RAMBOW will serve the Wilhemshaven, Hamburg, Fredericia, Aarhus, Wilhelmshaven route and the 1,338 teu JAN will serve the Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven, Oslo, Gothenburg, Hamburg route.

Hapag-Lloyd has added Shanghai to the China-Germany Express (CGX) rotation and replaced the current Le Havre call with Antwerp. The revised CGX will call at Shanghai, Dachan Bay, Singapore, Wilhelmshaven, Antwerp, Shanghai starting from 8 November with the 4,252 SEASPAN HAMBURG. The total service duration will increase from 8 weeks to 9 weeks, with 9 ships of 2,500-4,800 teu to be deployed. New CGX service rotationThe service was first launched on 9 April 2022 and called at Dachan Bay, Wilhel

MSC is putting more capacity on the intra-Asia routes using newly acquired second hand tonnage with one new service and 2 upgraded services to be introduced in November 2022. MSC will launch a new Dolphin service calling at Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Jakarta,  Surabaya, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Laem Chabang, Cai Mep, Shanghai starting from Shanghai on 2 November 2022 with the 2,741 teu MSC CAPE III. Port rotation of MSC's Dolphin service from 2 Nov 2022MSC will a

CMA CGM's Short Sea Lines Division will extend its existing Morocco Shuttle service with the addition of a new call at Port Vendres in southern France starting from 10 Nov 2022. The service will call weekly at Agadir, Port Vendres, Barcelona, Algeciras, Tanger Med, Casablanca, Agadir using 2 Moroccan flag ships (the 1,118 teu CMA CGM AGADIR and CMA CGM TANGER) that will also allow them to serve the cabotage trades within Moroccan ports. The new service is mainly aimed at the fruit and vegeta

MSC will upgrade its Noumea Express service to include new calls at the Fijian ports of Lautoka and Suva starting from 10 November 2022. The revised rotation will call at Sydney, Brisbane, Noumea, Lautoka*, Suva* (*fortnightly), Sydney. The existing call at Bell Bay on the Noumea Express is expected to be incorporated within an alternate week basis.

Aladin Express (ALX) has launched a new Gulf-India Express 2 (GIX2) service connecting Mundra, Dammam, Bahrain, Hamad, Jebel Ali, Mundra. The service started on 23 September with the 1,740 teu GREEN ACE. The new service will complement the Gulf India Express (GIX) that was launched on 9 April 2022 with the 510 teu URANUS calling at Mundra, Sohar, Mundra, Sohar, Jebel Ali, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Mundra. Aladin also operates the Asia India Middle East Express (AIMX) that calls at Busan, Shangha

Hapag-Lloyd has introduced a new Chittagong Colombo Feeder (CCF) service starting from 23 September 2022 with the 1,740 teu HANSA RENDSBURG at Colombo. The service is aimed at relay connections at Colombo to Europe and North America destinations from Bangladesh. Hapag-Lloyd CCF port rotation

China United Lines (CUL) will consolidate their 2 separate FE-USWC transpacific services into a revised Transpacific Express II/South China-West US (TPC) service that will call at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Yantian, Los Angeles, Qingdao. The service will deploy 6 ships of 4,300-4,700 teu. The consolidated service will absorb the Transpacific Express (TPX) service that was jointly operated with Shanghai Jinjiang (SJJ) that had called at Shanghai, Los Angeles, Shanghai. The last SJJ opera

Maersk has suspended the TP28 transpacific service that called at Cai Mep, Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Houston, Norfolk, Cai Mep with the last sailing from Cai Mep scheduled on 13 October 2022 with the 4,431 teu MERKUR ARCHIPELAGO. The TP28 service was launched only in April 2022 and has been running irregularly using ships of 4,200-5,900 teu, with an average weekly capacity of less than 2,000 teu. The service will be merged into the revised TP20 that will call at Jakarta, Cai Mep, Shanghai, N