The Alliance will provide beginning October six services instead of seven - four to north Europe and two to the Mediterranean

The company will use the port of Felixstowe instead of Le Havre as transshipment hub for north European ports

Zim has been operating on this service with the GA since 2008. Hamburg Sd may provide a vessel to the service at a later stage

Loop ABX will also call Damietta, enabling OOCL to offer service on a bi-weekly basis, thereby doubling the capacity

The Asia Black Sea Express service (ABX) will call at the Egyptian port of Damietta on bi-weekly frequency which will allow doubling the capacity from the Far East to Israel

The service is a weekly service deploying nine TEU 4,083 - TEU 4250 vessels. The last EWX voyage is Zim Genova departing Shanghai on Oct. 4th

"Zim Genova" is scheduled to make the maiden call at Hong Kong port. The EWX service was launched in mid-January 2008 using four container ships

Zim EWX is a weekly service, deploying 8 X 4250 TEU recent vessels. The new service will commence on January 15th