Maersk will start a new Transpacific East Coast service with the name TP18 in an effort to respond to the increased cargo demand and to improve schedule reliability.
The new weekly service will primarily deploy 4,500 TEU vessels, calling at the ports of Vung Tau, Yantian, Ningbo and Shanghai with a Panama Canal transit and direct connections to Houston and Norfolk.
In more detail, TP28 rotation will be as follows:
Vung Tau (Vietnam) – Yantian (China) – Ningbo (China) – Shanghai (China) – Houston...
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