2M Alliance announces rotation changes in Transpacific services

GENEVA : The largest container shipping alliance, the 2M alliance (Maersk and MSC), has decided to proceed with severalchangesintwoTranspacificservices.

Firstly, the TP10/Amberjack service will run on the followingrotation,effectivefromMay,linkingsouth&central China&SouthKoreatotheeastcoastoftheUnitedStates:

Qingdao (China) – Ningbo (China) – Shanghai (China) –Busan(SouthKorea)–PanamaCanal(Panama)–Kingston (US) – Charleston (US) – Savannah (US) – Norfolk (US) –Kingston (US) – Panama Canal (Panama) – Busan (North Korea)–Qingdao(China)

Calls at Jacksonville and Wilmington will be removed and switched to the updated TP16/Emerald service, which will begin on 6 May with the 8,238 TEU vessel Mount Everest.

Likewise beginning in May, the TP16/Emerald service will follow a new rotation, dropping Norfolk but adding Jacksonville and Wilmington to compensate for the removaloftheseportsontheTP10/Amberjackservice:

Xiamen (China) – Yantian (China) – Shanghai (China) – Busan (China) – Panama Canal (Panama) – Cristobal (Panama) – Savannah (US) – Jacksonville (US) –Wilmington (US) – New York (US) – Suez Canal (Egypt) –Singapore(Malaysia)–Xiamen(China).