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China-US trade war could be the founder of a feast for intra-Asia box traffic

Booming intra-Asia trades stand to benefit the most from a lengthy US-China trade war.
But low freight rates, overcapacity and poor schedule reliability is putting pressure on shipping lines operating in what is the world’s biggest container market.
According to Philip Damas, head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, intra-Asia works “on different dynamics” to the major east-west trades.
“There’s still a huge amount of competition there, where there’s no shortage of capacity and rates are …

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https://theloadstar.co.uk/china-us-trade-war-founder-feast-intra-asia-box-traffic/

ZIM is coming to Jacksonville

Zim Integrated Shipping Services, the 11th largest ocean carrier in the world, is adding service to Jacksonville. The Israel-based company will call Jaxport as the vessel operator for 2M, one of the four largest vessel-sharing alliances in the world. The new service will bring more containers from North Asia through Jaxport, which has placed an emphasis on Asian container imports, netting average annual growth of 21 percent over the last five years.

For Jaxport, Zim’s arrival further diversifies...

http://container-news.com/zim-coming-jacksonville/

MSC and ZIM further their cooperation

The new cooperation is due to commence on the second half of October, connecting India and major East Mediterranean ports.  

ZIM and MSC are pleased to announce a new cooperation, offering a fast and reliable connection between the sub-continent and the Mediterranean, as follows:

  • ZII – ZIM India Israel Service with the following rotation:  Nhava Sheva – Mundra – Haifa (west bound only)
  • ZIE – ZIM India East Med Express with the following rotation:  Mundra – Nhava Sheva – Colombo – Port...

http://container-news.com/msc-zim-further-cooperation/

Hapag-Lloyd about the six carriers’ collaboration

Hapag-Lloyd announced an enhanced coverage for the Mediterranean to North America East Coast market.

The new AL6 service is consolidating the AL6 service (operated by Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, Yang Ming), and the Amerigo service (operated by COSCO, CMA-CGM, OOCL) into one larger loop.

It will be operated jointly by Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, Yang Ming, COSCO, CMA-CGM and OOCL. The rotation is expected to be as follows:

La Spezia – Genoa – Fos – Barcelona – Valencia – New York –...

http://container-news.com/hapag-lloyd-six-carriers-collaboration/

THE and Ocean alliances team up for Mediterranean-US east coast service

THE and the Ocean alliances have confirmed plans to merge a Mediterranean-US east coast service in December.
Subject to regulatory approval, the new service will see THE Alliance’s AL6 join with the Amerigo service operated by CMA CGM, Cosco and OOCL – Ocean Alliance member Evergreen is not part of the service and is not expected play a part in the new string.
The service will deploy six 8,000 teu vessels – three from …

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