Taiwan -based carrier Evergreen will resume its 20-port pendulum service to Tacoma six months after it withdrew the US West Coast-Asia/Mediterranean (UAM) service with a May 10 sailing from Kaohsiung.
"Evergreen reintroduces its pendulum UAM service as the preparation for the expected recovery of global economy," a spokesman from Evergreen was cited to say in a JCTrans.Net news report. The move comes at a time when the problem of port congestion has diminished and is unlikely to disrupt the schedule of a pendulum service.
The service will deploy 14 vessels in 5,300 TEU range and will run for 14 weeks instead of 13 by way of slow-steaming. Port rotation will be: Tacoma, Vancouver, Tokyo, Osaka, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Colombo, Ashdod, Alexandria, Taranto, Genoa, Barcelona, Valencia, Taranto, Colombo, Tanjung Pelepas, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Yantian, Shanghai, Ningbo and back to Tacoma.
The loop will now replace the Far Eastern/Mediterranean service (FEM), which Evergreen will withdraw along with its joint service with CSCL on the Asia Pacific Northwest Coast (PNW or ANW1) it deployed as a slack season measure. There will be a slight reduction in capacity on the UAM from its previous service of thirteen 5,700 TEU class ships.
"Evergreen reintroduces its pendulum UAM service as the preparation for the expected recovery of global economy," a spokesman from Evergreen was cited to say in a JCTrans.Net news report. The move comes at a time when the problem of port congestion has diminished and is unlikely to disrupt the schedule of a pendulum service.
The service will deploy 14 vessels in 5,300 TEU range and will run for 14 weeks instead of 13 by way of slow-steaming. Port rotation will be: Tacoma, Vancouver, Tokyo, Osaka, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Colombo, Ashdod, Alexandria, Taranto, Genoa, Barcelona, Valencia, Taranto, Colombo, Tanjung Pelepas, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Yantian, Shanghai, Ningbo and back to Tacoma.
The loop will now replace the Far Eastern/Mediterranean service (FEM), which Evergreen will withdraw along with its joint service with CSCL on the Asia Pacific Northwest Coast (PNW or ANW1) it deployed as a slack season measure. There will be a slight reduction in capacity on the UAM from its previous service of thirteen 5,700 TEU class ships.