Hapag-Lloyd drops Oakland and Seattle for Manzanillo, Mexico on PAX loop
GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd has announced its Kobe Express on the Grand
Alliance PAX service will drop Oakland and Seattle ports and go to
Manzanillo, Mexico due to "technical issues", said the company
statement. Tuesday, 20.Dec.2011, 22:25 (GMT+3)
GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd has announced its Kobe Express on the Grand
Alliance PAX service will drop Oakland and Seattle ports and go to
Manzanillo, Mexico due to "technical issues", said the company
statement.
The service connects China and Japan with the US west and east coasts,
as well as North Europe. According to ComPair Data, its rotation is
Antwerp, London-Thamesport, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Halifax, New York-New
Jersey, Norfolk, Savannah, Manzanillo (Panama), Los Angeles, Oakland,
Yokohama, Kobe, Kaohsiung, Shenzhen-Yantian, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Shekou,
Kobe, Nagoya, Tokyo, Seattle, Oakland, Balboa, Manzanillo (Panama),
Savannah, Norfolk, New York/New Jersey, Halifax, and back to Antwerp.
As a Grand Alliance joint service, it is run with 14 Hapag-Lloyd vessels, with alliance members NYK Line and OOCL taking slots.
The Hapag-Lloyd statement did not mention the effective date of new
arrangement. But according to OOCL's online schedule, the Kobe Express
was due to call at Seattle on December 11 and Oakland December 14.