The three carriers together will deploy nine ships with capacity of between TEU 8,000 and TEU 8,500. The ZIM ANTWERP will initiate the new service from Qingdao on April 24th
Taiwan's Evergreen Line, China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services ltd (ZIM) will launch a new joint weekly Asia-Europe service.
The new service, commencing in late April 2011, will be dubbed as “CES2” by Evergreen and “AEX2” by CSCL and ZIM.
Spokespersons for the three carriers said: “The new service will add the ports of Xiamen in South China and Antwerp in Belgium to enhance space availability for shippers utilizing Asia-Europe services. The shippers will have a more complete Asia-Europe container transport network.”
The three carriers together will deploy nine ships with capacity of between TEU 8,000 and TEU 8,500. Evergreen will supply five TEU 8,000 vessels. One TEU 8,000 and two TEU 8,500 vessels will come from ZIM’s fleet and one TEU 8,000 from CSCL.
The ZIM ANTWERP will initiate the new service from Qingdao on April 24th with the following 63 days rotation:
Qingdao - Shanghai - Ningbo - Xiamen - Yantian - Tanjung Pelepas - Port Klang - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp - Tanjung Pelepas - Qingdao
