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THE Alliance Unveils Enhanced Service Network for 2019

[ December 21, 2018   //   Gary G Burrows ]

Members of THE Alliance, Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, and Yang Ming announced the details of their revamped service network for 2019. THE Alliance will deploy a fleet of more than 249 modern ships connecting 76 ports throughout Asia, North Europe, the Mediterranean, North America, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and Red Sea.

The major enhancement of THE Alliance product includes a newly designed pendulum service, to replace Far East Europe 1 service (FE1), Pacific Southwest 1 service (PS1) and Pacific Southwest 2 service (PS2), and a new Pacific Northwest 4 service (PN4), offering a wider range of direct calls across North America West Coast, Europe and Asia. The launch of PN4 service will provide more efficient and comprehensive links between Asia and PNW. Moving forward, a necessary capacity upgrade to the existing Asia-Europe network and overall optimized port-pair connections will be implemented to accommodate customers’ needs of greater reliability and stability in service quality.

THE Alliance outlined its enhanced service network as follows:

Asia and North Europe

FE1: From TPWC – Tokyo – Shimizu – Kobe – Nagoya – Tokyo – Singapore – (Suez Canal) – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Southampton – Le Havre – (Suez Canal) – Singapore – Kobe – Nagoya – Tokyo – to TPWC

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