Services/Sailings

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.

Maersk will replace 2 existing services connecting North Europe-Caribbean with a new CAX service that will connect Antwerp, Southampton, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Newark, Manzanillo (Pan), Puerto Antioquia, Moin, Manzanillo (Pan), Antwerp using 7 gearless ships of 5,500 teu starting with the 5,560 teu MAERSK MONTE LINZOR at Moin on 26 September 2025, with the MAERSK MONTE ALTO making the southbound voyage concurrently from Antwerp on 29 September. The call at Puerto Antioquia in Colombia

Milaha has enhanced its Milaha Turkiye Express (MTX) service with the addition of a new call at Misurata, Libya and upgrading the service to a weekly sailing frequency through a partnership with Summit Shipping that will add a second vessel to the service that it brands at the Turkey Libya Express (TLX). The enhanced MTX/TLX service will start from 22 August 2025 to call at Alexandria, Misurata, Ambarli, Diliskelesi, Izmir, Alexandria. The service will turn in 14 days using the 1,015 teu AL BID

CMA CGM has launched a new Levant Red Sea Express (LRX) service connecting Mersin, Beirut, Jeddah, Lattakia, Iskenderun, Mersin from 27 July 2025. The LRX service turns in 3 weeks and will deploy 3 ships of 2,200-2,800 teu starting with the 2,260 teu CMA CGM FORT ST PIERRE at Beirut on 27 July 2025.

Greta Shipping will launch a new Jebel Ali-Karachi Express (JKX) service connecting Jebel Ali, Karachi, Jebel Ali from 15 August 2025. The JKX service will turn in 7 days with the 2,444 teu HUI FA. Greta Shipping was established on March 2024 in Singapore as a wholly owned subdiary of Xiamen C&D Group.

Vuxx Shipping will launch a new China-Baltic service connecting Shanghai, Ningbo, Nanasha, Damietta, Kaliningrad, St Petersburg, Damietta, Shanghai from 2 August 2025. The service will turn in 12 weeks and will deploy up to 6 ships of 1,500 to 2,500 teu. Vuxx Shipping took over the Russia related shipping business of Reel Shipping in August 2024 and currently serves the China-Baltic route by transhipment at Damietta and Casablanca.

Inland World Logistics has launched its first self-operated container shipping service with the chartered 602 teu ALBERO on 18 July 2025. After an initial trip from Singapore with a load of 364 teu arriving at Kolkata on 31 July 2025, the ship will be phased into a Kolkata, Port Klang, Kolkata rotation that is operated by a new entity called Inland Voyage.

Hede Shipping has launched a new Huanghua Incheon Service (HIS) connecting Jingtang, Huanghua, Incheon, Jingtang from 19 July 2025 using the 610 teu SHAO YUN (ex BEI HAI). The HIS service will turn in 5 days on a rolling schedule.

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

Sea Legend Line, a wholly owned subsidiary of Worldwide Logistics Holding, has announced a China-Europe sailing using the Arctic / Northern Sea Route (NSR). The 4,890 teu ISTANBUL BRIDGE will make the maiden voyage from 20 Septmber 2025 calling at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gdansk. The ship is currently operated by Safetrans on the China-St Petersburg route via the Suez. The same ship, then named as FLYING FISH 1, had also performed a single eastbound Arctic/NSR