G6 lines add ships, slow 3 Asia-Europe loops

Friday, November 09, 2012

The G6 Alliance of liner shipping companies have added 11 vessels to three of their weekly services between Asia, North Europe and the Middle East, the LP4, LP5 and LP7 loops, increasing roundtrip voyage time from 70 days to 77 days on each. LP4 is adding an additional eastbound call at Jeddah, now taking 23 days from Rotterdam to Jeddah, compared with a retained westbound fast transit of 21 days from Singapore to Le Havre. On the LP5 transit times eastbound from...

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