Services/Sailings

Saigon Newport (SNP) and Vietnam Maritime Corporation (VMC) has launched a new joint service that connects Haiphong, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, Haiphong. The domestic service started from 24 December 2022 with the 420 teu TAN CANG FOUNDATION at Haiphong and arrived at Can Tho on 29 December 2022. The ship is operated by SNP's Tan Cang Shipping with 2 sailings to be provided each month. The frequency will be upgraded at a later stage with VMC's VIMC Shipping to add a 610 teu ship. The service w

Hapag-Lloyd will continue to operate its dedicated China Germany Express (CGX) service using panamax ships of 4,000-5,000 teu but the sailing frequencies will be reduced with only 4 sailings to be offered in January and February 2023. The service was first launched on 9 April 2022 as a 2 port shuttle service connecting Dachan Bay and Wilhemshaven to turn in 56 days, offering a direct weekly link from China to Germany with a one way transit time of 27 days. The original plan to call at Hamburg

Wan Hai's Asia America 9 (AA9)/Asia America Service IX connecting Far East-US East Coast has been streamlined into a eastbound round-the-world rotation with a new call at Philadelphia added since 18 August 2022 as  well as new calls at Balboa and Shanghai added since October 2022. The AA9 rotation calls at Haiphong, Shekou, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Qingdao, Balboa, Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, Suez (Canal), Haiphong. The revised service avoids the persistent congestion at Norfolk and Sava

CMA CGM will add a new westbound call at Jeddah on the INDAMEX 2 service connecting the Indian Subcontinent with the US East Coast. The revised rotation will start from 1 January 2023 can call at Port Qasim, Mundra, Nhava Sheva, Jeddah (new call from 11 Jan 2023), Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Port Qasim. The new Jeddah call will provide transhipment connections from Jordan, Djibouti, Kenya, Egypt with shorter transit times from Jeddah to Norfolk (16 days), Charleston (18 days) and Savannah

Zhonggu Shipping has expanded further outside of its core China domestic market with the launch of its new China Malaysia Indonesia (CMI) service in November 2022. The new service connects Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Port Klang, Jakarta, Surabaya, Qingdao and turns in 4 weeks using 4 ships of 1,900-2,500 teu. The 2,518 teu ZHONG GU ZHU HAI made the maiden CMI voyage from Qingdao on 12 November 2022, followed by the ZHONG GU LIN YI, ZHONG GU YING KOU and ZHONG GU NAN HAI. The move marks Zhong

CMA CGM is launching another shuttle connecting Guyana and Trinidad. The new shuttle will deploy a single ship 167 teu CEDRIC K calling Georgetown and Port of Spain. CEDRIC K, currently deployed in St Martin & other islands service (Leeward 2), is phasing in on 4 Jan at Port of Spain.

Zim has withdrawn its North China Australia Express (C3A) service from December 2022. The last sailing was made by the 1,717 teu OPHELIA that ended its rotation at Brisbane on 23 December 2022. The service was first launched at the end of February 2022 and called at Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Xingang. The service turned in 6 weeks using ships of 1,7000=2,700 teu.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) will launch a new Europe-Asia Pendulum Service that calls at Dalian, Shanghai, Ennore, Jeddah, Montoir, Bremerhaven, Antwerp, Jeddah, Dalian from 31 December 2022. The service will turn in 80-82 days and will initially deploy 2 of Bahri's roro/container ships of  25,900 dwt/364 teu with sailings every 40-45 days starting with the BAHRI JAZAN at Dalian on 31 December 2022 and the BAHRI JEDDAH on 17 February 2023. Bahri's new Europe Asia Pend

THE Alliance carriers (Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, ONE and Yang Ming) have started to divert the ships on the EC4 backhaul voyages via the Cape of Good Hope starting with the departures from the US East Coast in November 2022. A total of 9 EC4 sailings will take the longer Cape route instead of the regular passage via the Suez Canal, in a move that will allow the carriers to save on canal toll fees as well as reduce the effective capacity on the route with the EC4 sailings reduced to fortnightly departu

Sinokor has ventured out of its core intra-Asia services for the first time, with the launch of a new Asia-Black Sea service that connects several Asian ports with the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. The 1,512 teu SAWASDEE SINGAPORE has made the first voyage from Asia from 5 December 2022 calling at Incheon, Busan, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Port Klang, Novorossiysk. This will be followed by a second voyage on 27 December 2022 with the 4,738 teu GRACE BRIDGE calling at Qingd