MSC will launch a revised USA-West Africa-South Africa Express (USWASA Express), service from 1 October 2025, with the addition of new calls at West Africa to replace its current USA to South Africa service that it jointly operates with Maersk. The USWASA will call at New York, Baltimore, Savannah, Freeport, Lome, Durban, Coega, Cape Town, San Pedro, New York with an additional call at Philadelphia to added on a seasonal basis. The service will turn in 9 weeks and will deploy 9 ships of 2,500
MSC will introduce a new Asia-West Africa Iroko service connecting Ningbo, Nansha, Singapore, Pointe Noire, Contonou, Lagos, Onne, Lobito, Singapore, Xiamen, Ningbo from 10 September 2025.
MSC will launch a new Far East-South America West Coast Alpaca service connecting Nansha, Hong Kong, Ningbo, Busan, Callao, Arica, Iquique, San Antonio, Nansha from September 2025. The first sailing is scheduled at Ningbo on 23 September with the 4,600 teu MSC LOME V, with up to 8 ships of 4,200 to 5,000 teu slated to join the service.
271 new containerships for 2.6m TEU were ordered in the first 7 months of this year, not including undeclared options that would raise the final tally to over 300 ships as carriers’ appetite for new tonnage remains unabated. The wave of new orders is not about to end soon, with attention shifting to feeder sizes. The orderbook for ships of below 4,000 teu currently stands at just 6.8% of the current fleet, compared to 16.2% for ships of 4,000 to 10,000 teu, and 51.7% for ships of over 10,000 teu
MSC will launch a new standalone Eagle Service connecting Philadelphia, Savannah, Freeport, Balboa, Papeete, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tauranga, Balboa, Cristobal, Philadelphia from February 2026. The Eagle Service will turn in 77 days and will deploy 11 ships from MSC on a weekly frequency. The launch of the Eagle Service will challenge the longstanding Maersk Oceania Americas (OC1) service on which MSC currently takes slots as the Oceania Loop 2. MSC currently has a slot allocati
MSC has made the first move to withdraw excess capacity on the transpacific route with the suspension of the Pearl service that connects Cai Mep, Haiphong, Nansha, Hong Kong, Yantian, Xiamen, Long Beach. The last sailing on the Pearl service will be made by the 8,819 teu MSC ELODIE from Xiamen on 13 July 2025. The Pearl service is currently operated as part of Pearl-Shikra service since May 2025 using ships of 8,000 to 9,400 teu. The Far East-India leg is expected to be retained after the remov
MSC and Zim have merged their Pelican/Zim South Lotus (ZSL) and Lone Star Express/Zim Gulf Central (ZGC) service connecting the Far East with the US East Coast into a new Lone Star Express/Zim South Lotus (ZSL) service from 15 May 2025. The revised service will call at Cai Mep, Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Mobile, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Bahamas Freeport, Singapore, Cai Mep. The new Lone Star Express/Zim South Lotus (ZSL) service will turn in 13 weeks and deploys 13 ships of 8,000 to 10,000
MSC has launched a new West Med to West Africa service connecting Genoa, Valencia, Las Palmas, Dakar, Tema, Lome, Abidjan, Dakar, Genoa from 17 June 2025. The service turns in 6 weeks using 6 ships of 1,700 to 2,800 teu starting with the 1,730 teu MSC PANAYA at Genoa on 17 June 2025.
MSC will launch a new Oryx service connecting Singapore, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Singapore from 19 June 2025. The service will turn in 6 weeks using up to 6 ships of 3,500 teu starting with the 3,534 teu MSC ELBA III at Singapore on 19 June 2025.
MSC will change the pairing of the Far East-Middle East Clanga service once again, dropping the planned combination with the Sentosa service to the PSW and switching to a new combination with the Chinook service to the PNW. The new Chinook-Clanga service will start from 6 June 2025 calling at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Singapore, Nhava Sheva, Dammam, Hamad, Cai Mep, Haiphong, Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, Busan, Seattle, Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Busan, Qingdao. The new pendulum