TERMINAL construction works on the US East Coast has prompted Danish shipping giant maersk Line to swap ports on the OC1 service to and from Australia and New Zealand.
Just weeks after returning the service to a single string after low Panama Canal water levels saw the operation split into Pacific and Atlantic legs, Maersk will now switch southeast ECNA calls to Savannah while Charleston's Wando Welch Terminal (WWT) is undergoing improvement works, involving toe wall construction, expected to take 10-12 months.
WWT is the port's largest container terminal with a capacity of 2.4 million TEU per annum and handles around 78 per cent of container volume.
The carrier is also temporarily dropping Cristobal from the weekly OC1 rotation due to port congestion driving up waiting times, reports Australia's Daily Cargo News.
The adjusted OC1 rotates in eleven weeks with eleven vessels with capacities of between 3,100 and3,800 TEU. The service calls at Philadelphia, Savannah, Balboa, Tauranga, Port Botany, Melbourne, Timaru, Port Chalmers, Tauranga, Manzanillo, Cartagena and returning to Philadelphia.
The 3,075 TEU Maersk Buton was the first OC1 ship to follow the updated rotation when it departed Philadelphia southbound on June 18, making the first Savannah call two days later.
Separately, the OC1 vessel Maersk Innoshima's arrival in Tauranga on V420S was delayed until June 20 due to 'an operational vessel issue' which also required the northbound Timaru call on V425N to be omitted. Contingency arrangements for Timaru imports/exports have been made.
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Just weeks after returning the service to a single string after low Panama Canal water levels saw the operation split into Pacific and Atlantic legs, Maersk will now switch southeast ECNA calls to Savannah while Charleston's Wando Welch Terminal (WWT) is undergoing improvement works, involving toe wall construction, expected to take 10-12 months.
WWT is the port's largest container terminal with a capacity of 2.4 million TEU per annum and handles around 78 per cent of container volume.
The carrier is also temporarily dropping Cristobal from the weekly OC1 rotation due to port congestion driving up waiting times, reports Australia's Daily Cargo News.
The adjusted OC1 rotates in eleven weeks with eleven vessels with capacities of between 3,100 and3,800 TEU. The service calls at Philadelphia, Savannah, Balboa, Tauranga, Port Botany, Melbourne, Timaru, Port Chalmers, Tauranga, Manzanillo, Cartagena and returning to Philadelphia.
The 3,075 TEU Maersk Buton was the first OC1 ship to follow the updated rotation when it departed Philadelphia southbound on June 18, making the first Savannah call two days later.
Separately, the OC1 vessel Maersk Innoshima's arrival in Tauranga on V420S was delayed until June 20 due to 'an operational vessel issue' which also required the northbound Timaru call on V425N to be omitted. Contingency arrangements for Timaru imports/exports have been made.
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