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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
Crowley will expand it Central America port coverage with a new US Northeast-Central America service connecting Gloucester City (New Jersey), Puerto Cortes, Santo Tomas de Castilla, Gloucester City from 3 July 2025. The service turns in 14 days and will deploy 2 newly delivered Avance-class LNG powered ships of 1,340 teu with 300 reefer slots.
Emirates Shipping Line (ESL) will return to the Transpacific trade from July 2025 in a partnership with UWL on the Sun Chief Express service. ESL first entered the Transpacific trade in 2006 when it partnered Zim, SCI and MacAndrews on the India-USEC Indus Express (IDX) and with Zim on the Asia-US Gulf Express (AGX). ESL shut down the IDX in December 2007 and withdrew from the AGX in May 2008 thus ending its participation on the US routes after less than 2 years in the trade. The new ESL trans
SeaLead will launch a new PNW transpacific service connecting Shekou, Ningbo, Shanghai, Seattle, Vancouver, Shekou in July 2025. The PNW service will turn in 6 weeks and will initially deploy 3 ships of 2,200 to 3,400 teu on irregular schedules. The service is scheduled to start from 4 July 2025 with the 2,274 teu CICCIO at Shekou, with the second sailing due on 27 July with the 3,398 teu ALE. The schedules are subject to changes as the rapid decline in transpacific freight rates could derail S
Sidra Lines have launched a new Havana Med Service (HMS) connecting Iskenderun, Mersin, Alexandria, Benghazi, Misurata, Valencia, Mariel, Veracruz, Iskenderun from 20 June 2025 using up to 3 ships of 500 to 1,100 teu on irregular port rotations. The first sailing departed from Alexandria on 20 June 2025 with the 523 teu SIDRA HALIMA, to be followed by the 1,130 teu SENATOR at Iskenderun on 27 June 2025.
CMA CGM has upgraded the capacity of the ships deployed on its Asia-Med Phoenician Express (BEX2) service from the 8,500-11,500 teu scale to larger ships of 13,100-15,500 teu. The 13,136 teu CMA CGM COBALT was the first of the upsized ships to join the service on 26 March 2025, and has been followed by the larger 15,536 teu CMA CGM OSIRIS on 2 May 2025. The BEX2 service is the largest service on the Suez Canal, and the use of the larger ships will allow CMA CGM to enjoy the 15% discount on tran
Akkon's Turkey India (TIN) service has been extended to include calls at Karachi in a revised Turkey India Pakistan (TIP) service that calls at Ambarli, Aliaga, Iskenderun, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Karachi, Izmit, Gemlik, Ambarli. The TIP service turns in 35 days and deploys 2 to 3 ships of 1,700-2,000 teu on an irregular schedule.
RCL has launched a new RCL Calcutta Service 9 (RCH9) connecting Chu Lai, Port Klang (WP), Kolkata, Kattupalli, Chu Lai from 16 May 2025. The service turns in 25-28 days and deploys various ships of 800 teu to 1,000 teu on irregular schedules starting with the 1,018 teu CHANA BHUM at Chu Lai on 16 May 2025.
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.
CMA CGM has redirected a ship on the Europe Pakistan India Consortium (EPIC) service to the Suez route despite the escalation in the Middle East conflict since 13 June 2025. The 11,388 teu CMA CGM AQUILA is heading from Algeciras to the Red Sea and is scheduled to transit the Suez Canal on 17 June 2025 before calling at Jeddah on 20 June, Abu Dhabi on 28 June and Jebel Ali on 30 June. The shorter Suez route will allow CMA CGM to cut the transit time from Europe to Abu Dhabi by about 10 days and