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In
a moved aimed at arresting the
current worsening freight market
in the US-Asia trade, the New
World Alliance has decided to re-organise
its service strings that will see
Westport, at Port Klang being left
out in the new port rotation.
The
member lines of the Alliance
comprising APL, Hyundai Merchant
Marine and MOL announced that they
will axe their Pacific Northwest
Express service and fold it into
their US East Coast all-water
service.
To
make up for the for the string
cuts, the group of lines will add
Japanese and west coast North
America stops to two other
services.
The
decision to re-organise the
service strings is seen as a
response to calls for member lines
to act independently
“withdraw” capacity on the
Pacific (and also the Europe-Asia
trade lanes).
The
East Coast service port rotation
will remain unchanged except for
the addition of a westbound call
at Oakland, after transiting the
Panama Canal on its return to
Asia.
The
Alliance announced that the
improved East Coast service will
commence November 21, 2001 with
the new sailing from
Oakland.
The
port rotation for the new ECS
service will be Chiwa, Hong Kong,
Kaohsiung, Kobe, Nagoya, Tokyo,
Manzanillo, Panama, Miami,
Charleston, Norfolk, New York,
Norfolk, Charleston, Manzanillo,
Panama, Oakland, Tokyo, Kobe; with
a return to Chiwan.
The
Pacific Northwest String, the PS1
service will be re-organised with
additional eastbound calls at
Nagoya and Tokyo and a new call at
Vancouver to serve both eastbound
and westbound markets.
The
new PS1 port rotation will be
Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles,
Yokohama, Yantian, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Yantian, Hong Kong,
Kaohsiung, Nagoya, Tokyo, return
to Seattle.
The
PS3 service will include
additional calls at Seattle and
Vancouver for westbound cargo with
a port rotation of Los Angeles,
Seattle, Vancouver, Tokyo, Nagoya,
Kobe, Shanghai, Kobe, Tokyo,
return to Los Angeles.
In
order to make the additional calls
at Japan and North West Coast
calls, the Alliance has to drop
the Port Klang call on the PS1
service and also Oakland on the
westbound Oakland call on the PS3
service.
The
alliance will operate eight
fixed-day weekly services in the
transpacific plus Asia-US east
coast services, one of these
together with Evergreen Marine
Corporation.
The
New World Alliance is also looking
at reducing capacity in the
Asia/Europe trade.
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