Alliances combine with Asia/USEC via Suez services from May 2013
SIX container lines are to combine services on the Asia to US east coast via Suez effective May 2013 with capacity rationalisation expected.
Members of the Grand Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL) and the New World Alliance (APL, HMM and MOL) will extend their G6 Alliance launched in March 2012 which extended to create an extensive network on the Far East-Europe network with five services to north Europe from Asia and two Med loops.
The G6 Alliance will merge its AEX loop in which it deploys ten 5,800 TEU units and includes a loop from Zim with NWA's SZX service that includes one loop from Evergreen providing a fleet of nine vessels of 4,500 to 5,000 TEU.
The current merger talks between Germany's largest containership carriers, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud, both GA members, may alter the longer-term plans for the alliance, reported London's Containerisation International.
SIX container lines are to combine services on the Asia to US east coast via Suez effective May 2013 with capacity rationalisation expected.
Members of the Grand Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL) and the New World Alliance (APL, HMM and MOL) will extend their G6 Alliance launched in March 2012 which extended to create an extensive network on the Far East-Europe network with five services to north Europe from Asia and two Med loops.
The G6 Alliance will merge its AEX loop in which it deploys ten 5,800 TEU units and includes a loop from Zim with NWA's SZX service that includes one loop from Evergreen providing a fleet of nine vessels of 4,500 to 5,000 TEU.
The current merger talks between Germany's largest containership carriers, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud, both GA members, may alter the longer-term plans for the alliance, reported London's Containerisation International.