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2008 November 27   06:24

Evergreen restructures transpacific services

Сontainer line Evergreen is to launch a new Europe - Asia - West Coast North America pendulum service next month as part of a restructuring of its transpacific services. The move is expected to improve service reliability and reduce bunker costs while having a minimal effect on transit times.
Evergreen’s Asia United States (AUS) service, which currently sees nine vessels operating a twin-loop service linking California on one loop to Shanghai/Ningbo/ Qingdao and on the other loop to Kaohsiung/Hong Kong and Yantian, will be split in two. The southern loop will be incorporated into the new pendulum service while the northern loop will be replaced by a new China - South US West Coast (California) - China (CPS) service.
The new US West Coast - Asia - Europe (UAE) service is being created by merging the southern loop with Evergreen Line’s China  Europe Shuttle (CES) service to provide the following weekly schedule:
Los Angeles - Oakland - Taipei (Service to new built Taipei Port will be effective  from 3rd March 2009) - Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Yantian - Tanjung Pelepas - Colombo - Rotterdam - Hamburg - Thamesport - Zeebrugge -  Taranto - Port Said - Colombo - Tanjung Pelepas - Yantian - Hong Kong - Kaohsiung Los Angeles
Meanwhile the new CPS service will start from 26th December 2008 on the Ever Unison 0315-093E, port rotations listed as follows:
Pusan - Shanghai - Ningbo - Qingdao - Los Angeles - Oakland - Pusan
Previously, the CES service employed eight 7024teu S-type vessels while the AUS service employed nine vessels: two S-types, four 6332teu E-types and three 5362teu U-types.
In the reorganisation of these services, an additonal U-type will be drafted in and the UAE service will then be operated by 13 vessels (ten S-types and three E-types) and the CPS service by five vessels (two E-types and three U-types).
Amongst the benefits achieved by this restructuring is the inclusion of Pusan as a regular call in the CPS schedule and the ability to offer direct sailings between California and Evergreen’s South Asian hub ports of Tanjung Pelepas and Colombo.

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