Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hanjin Shipping and Yang Ming Marine to launch a new FE - Latin America service
Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hanjin Shipping and Yang Ming Marine Transportation Corp. have announced today that they will launch a new Far East-West Coast of Central and South America service effective on July 11th, 2015.
Named WLX (West Latin Express), the new service will be operated with 10 vessels of 5,500 TEU on a weekly basis. The port rotation is as below:
Shekou, Kaohsiung, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Manzanillo, Mexico, Buenaventura, Colombia, Callao, Peru, Valparaiso, Chile, San Vicente, Chile, Manzanillo, Mexico, Busan, Shekou.
Meanwhile, partner carriers believe that the introduction of this new service will improve transit times and provide extensive port coverage from Asia to the West Coast of Latin America including Mexico, and vice versa.