THE Alliance of Hapag-Lloyd, ONE and Yang Ming and, separately, Israeli shipping line Zim have made changes to their container shipping services that call at the port of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Alliance has dropped Halifax and Livorno from its AL6 Mediterranean service that is currently operated by five panamax ships and calls at Fairview Cove. The reconfigured AL6 will be combined with the Oceans Alliance (CMA CGM/Cosco/OOCL) Amerigo Service and use six 8,000 TEU ships.
The ability of the port to handle vessels of this size at Fairview Cove may have been part of the decision to cancel the Halifax call, reported the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Faced with large losses, Zim has started chartering container slots on other carriers' ships and joining alliances to reduce operating costs. The carrier's ZCA service, which already calls in Halifax, will pick up the Livorno stop cast from AL6.
The ZCA service currently serves many of the same ports that are covered by the AL6 service and it appears The Alliance is now marketing ZCA itself as AL7, so it's likely traffic for Halifax will simply change services and the port won't see a drop in volumes as a result.
The Alliance has dropped Halifax and Livorno from its AL6 Mediterranean service that is currently operated by five panamax ships and calls at Fairview Cove. The reconfigured AL6 will be combined with the Oceans Alliance (CMA CGM/Cosco/OOCL) Amerigo Service and use six 8,000 TEU ships.
The ability of the port to handle vessels of this size at Fairview Cove may have been part of the decision to cancel the Halifax call, reported the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Faced with large losses, Zim has started chartering container slots on other carriers' ships and joining alliances to reduce operating costs. The carrier's ZCA service, which already calls in Halifax, will pick up the Livorno stop cast from AL6.
The ZCA service currently serves many of the same ports that are covered by the AL6 service and it appears The Alliance is now marketing ZCA itself as AL7, so it's likely traffic for Halifax will simply change services and the port won't see a drop in volumes as a result.