Maersk slows AE1 northbound intra-Asia

Transportation

Monday, April 23, 2012

Ocean carrier Maersk Line has added an 11th vessel to its weekly North Europe-Asia AE1 service and increased round-trip voyage time from 70 days to 77 days. Maersk advised March 28 it would add an extra vessel to five of its six Asia-Europe loops and "super-slow-steam" them by adding one more week to their eastbound transits. The AE1's transit times eastbound from Europe to Asia have indeed increased as vessels slow steam one week between Singapore and Yant...

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