Week In Review : Service Announcements

Evergreen Line and China Shipping said Wednesday they will start a new intra-Asia service linking China with the Philippines and Thailand. It represents a continued partnership with Taiwan-based Evergreen and China’s two state-owned lines -- China Shipping and COSCO Container Lines -- since relations between Taipei and Beijing started improving in 2008. The new service, dubbed CPT, wi...

OOCL said this week in a customer advisory that it will limit acceptance of online booking requests to a maximum of eight weeks out "due to the continued tight space availability in the North American export market." Under the new rule, which came into effect March 8, OOCL said it is limiting acceptance of online booking requests via oocl.com or cargosmart.com to eight weeks. Shippers...

Japanese liner carriers MOL and “K” Line said Friday they would cooperate on two services linking Japan to the West Coast of North America, affecting a couple of existing loops operated by the two lines. Beginning April 7, MOL (a member of the New World Alliance) and “K” Line (a member of the CKYH Alliance) will partner on an express loop between four Japanese ports and Los Angeles and Oa...

CMA CGM said Friday it is raising rates from northern Europe to the Far East beginning April 1. The rate increases are $150 per 20-foot container and $300 per 40-foot container. CMA CGM said it will also quote the port of origin terminal handling charges (OTHC) separately from North Europe to the Far East sea freight for all cargos, including waste commodities, from April 1. ...

MOL said Friday it will start a new service linking Southeast Asia to the Indian port of Chennai beginning March 23. The new SMX service will have a rotation of Laem Chabang, Singapore, Port Klang, Chennai, Penang, Port Klang, Singapore and Laem Chabang. Information on the number and size of ships to be used on the service wasn’t immediately available. ...

Pacific International Lines will start its own China/U.S. West Coast service next month. The China-TransPacific (CTP) service will commence on April 6 with a sailing from Hong Kong and a port rotation of Hong Kong, Shekou, Ningbo, Shanghai, Long Beach and back to Hong Kong. The weekly service will have a round trip of 35 days deploying five ships of 1,3500-TEU capacities operated by P...

New World Alliance members said Thursday they will add a stop at Thailand's biggest port to their PSX transpacific service. The NWA will also add a ship to the loop to provide the direct service from Laem Chabang. The new rotation for the PSX is Laem Chabang, Cai Mep, Hong Kong, Yantian, Los Angeles, Oakland, Tokyo, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Da Chan Bay and Laem Chabang. According to America...

CMA CGM said it would hike U.S. export cargo rates to Asia, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent effective March 15, saying the increases were need to provide "high quality of services." The increases are: • From U.S. East, West and Gulf coasts ports to Asia, $150 for 20- foot containers and $200 for 40-foot containers. • From U.S. East and Gulf coasts ports to the Midd...

In the wake of Horizon Lines announcement last week that it would stop wholesaling space on its eastbound transpacific ships to Maersk Line in December, the Danish carrier said it is working on a plan to replace that lost capacity. "Maersk Line is carefully watching market developments and reviewing customer requirements. Once these are made clear we will release a plan designed to replac...

Intermarine has begun offering a heavy lift service between Europe and the East Coast of South America. The service will use 10,000-deadweight-ton vessels with gear capacity of up to 500 metric tons. The New Orleans-headquartered carrier said the service will be "perfectly suited to meet the needs of South America’s oil and gas, power generation, mining and infrastructure development ...

Vanguard Logistics Services has started a new less-than-trailerload in-bond rail service to Mexico City for freight originating in the U.S. Midwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest. Containers are moved in-bond across the U.S.-Mexico border and stripped and customs cleared at the Pantaco Rail Yard in Mexico City. The non-vessel-operating common carrier said the service “virtually eliminat...