Taiwan's Evergreen Line is suspending port calls at Thamesport in the United Kingdom, as well as Los Angeles on the eastbound leg of its Asia-US-Europe NUE pendulum service.
The last containership scheduled to call at Los Angeles on the NUE service will be the Ever Diadem which is expected to arrive on September 15 at the US port. The same vessel is slated to visit for the last time at Thamesport on October 11-12.
A report by the American Shipper said the scrapping of the port call at Los Angeles means that the NUE service will no longer transport cargo between Asia and the US west coast.
It said, however, that westbound calls at Los Angeles and Oakland will remain. What is more the move will increase the available weekly capacity from the Far East to US east coast ports by around 2,000 TEU.
The revamped NUE service will be operated by 12 ships of 4,200 TEU. The new port rotation will be: Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Qingdao, Cristobal, Charleston, Norfolk, New York-New Jersey, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Le Havre, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Cristobal, Los Angeles, Oakland, Tokyo, returning to Busan.
The report added that New World Alliance carriers Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL have slot chartered container space from Evergreen on the Asia-US east coast leg of the service.
The last containership scheduled to call at Los Angeles on the NUE service will be the Ever Diadem which is expected to arrive on September 15 at the US port. The same vessel is slated to visit for the last time at Thamesport on October 11-12.
A report by the American Shipper said the scrapping of the port call at Los Angeles means that the NUE service will no longer transport cargo between Asia and the US west coast.
It said, however, that westbound calls at Los Angeles and Oakland will remain. What is more the move will increase the available weekly capacity from the Far East to US east coast ports by around 2,000 TEU.
The revamped NUE service will be operated by 12 ships of 4,200 TEU. The new port rotation will be: Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Qingdao, Cristobal, Charleston, Norfolk, New York-New Jersey, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Le Havre, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Cristobal, Los Angeles, Oakland, Tokyo, returning to Busan.
The report added that New World Alliance carriers Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL have slot chartered container space from Evergreen on the Asia-US east coast leg of the service.