Week In Review : Service Announcements

Member lines of the Canada Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said last week they will raise their currency adjustment surcharge to 6 percent beginning Oct. 1. The surcharge will drop to 5 percent in September, after being at 6 percent since May. CTSA member lines are APL, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, “K” Line, NYK Line, OOCL, Yang Ming and...

Ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said last week it will raise rates from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong to all Australian ports beginning Sept. 15. The rate increase is $250 per TEU. ...

Hanjin Shipping said Tuesday it will discontinue providing chassis in Miami and Philadelphia on Oct. 1, and gradually expand the program to other U.S. regions. “In line with what has been in force in the rest of the world, we believe that the implementation of this new policy will immediately improve terminal productivity and cargo transit time at U.S. terminals as well by reducing idle t...

NYK and OOCL said Monday they would increased container freight rates in the transatlantic. NYK Line said effective Oct. 1 it would implement a general rate increase on cargo moving under NYK independent tariffs to and from North Europe and the United States or Canada by $150 per 20-foot container and $300 per 40-foot container. OOCL also said its rates will increase Oct. 1. The gener...

OOCL said it will increase rates on cargo moving from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East to Australia by $300 per TEU on Oct. 1. ...

Emirates Shipping Line said Tuesday it will become a participant in the ASEAN–Gulf-Indian Subcontinent (AGI) service launched earlier this month by a consortium of Evergreen, Simatech and OOCL. The port rotation of the service is Laem Chabang, Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Klang, Colombo, Jebel Ali, Karachi, Mundra, Colombo, Port Klang, Singapore and Laem Chabang. Emirates' partici...

DHL Global Forwarding said it has launched a weekly less-than-containerload service from Auckland, New Zealand, to Singapore, where shipments can be transshipped around the world. The direct service will provide customers with faster transit times, the company said. The service will be operated by Danmar Lines, DHL’s in-house non-vessel operating common carrier. DHL, which handles...

Maersk said Friday it will further raise transatlantic rates on Oct. 1, as part of a plan announced at the end of last year. The routes and rate increases are: • North Europe/United States, eastbound and westbound, $250 per 20-foot dry container, $350 per 40-foot dry container, and $500 for 40-foot reefer boxes. • North Europe/Canada, eastbound and westbound, $250 per 20-foot dry ...

Ocean carrier NYK Line said last week is has withdrawn from all trades involving Iran. The decision was made in consideration of “the current political and business difficulties related to Iran,” the line said in a customer notice. “All services to Iran have been suspended and cargo in-transit to Iran by NYK equipment is also not allowed.” On Thursday, the line also said it has formal...

Chilean carrier CSAV said Tuesday it will commence a new service in mid-September connecting the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and key ports in China with Long Beach. The standalone service, offered by the line’s CSAV Norasia subsidiary, will operate with 11 3,500-TEUs vessels provided by CSAV. It is a unique service in that it will provide direct connection from four ports in the I...

Ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Tuesday it is rearranging the rotation of its North Atlantic service between Northern Europe and the U.S. East Coast. From Aug. 28, the westbound leg of the service will call first at New York from Europe. Previously, Boston was called prior to New York. The new rotation will be Bremerhaven, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Le Havre, New York, Boston,...

CEVA Logistics, a large global supply chain management company, said last week it is offering an express cross-border transportation service for the oil and gas industry between the U.S. Gulf Coast and Alberta, Canada. The third-party logistics provider already offers project cargo transport from Mexico to Ontario in its role as a freight forwarder that hires specialized trucking companie...

Container line Hapag-Lloyd has joined a Far East/Australia service operated by ANL, China Shipping and OOCL, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. Hapag-Lloyd has become a slot buyer on the AANA service, which has a rotation of Yokohama, Osaka, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Yokohama. The service is operated with five ves...

Danaos Corp. said Monday it took delivery of two ships earlier this month, boosting its fleet to 49 ships. The ships will be chartered to France's CMA CGM and Taiwan's Yang Ming, both existing Danaos customers. The CMA CGM Racine, built at Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, and the YM Maturity, built at Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., have carrying capacities of 6...

Hapag-Lloyd will add a vessel to its Mediterranean Gulf (MGX) service in September, according to a release Monday from the Port of New Orleans, one of the ports the service calls. The service, which Hapag-Lloyd runs in concert with CSAV, operates with six vessels averaging 3,323 TEUs, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data. In September, the service will go to seven vessels....

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Monday it is raising rates on all shipments from Southeast Asia to Australia beginning Oct. 1. The increase, $300 per container, applies to container moving from ports in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to all Australian ports. ...