Yang Ming will deploy the YM Utopia on the Asia Europe Loop 3 (AE3) service part of the CKYH Alliance network. The AE3 has a rotation of Xingang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Jeddah, Port Said, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Thamesport and Xingang.
The Keelung-based line’s order book contains five 4,250-TEU and three 8,250-TEU containerships plus one bulk vessel.
Naming ceremony for the 8,200-TEU YM Utopia held at the Kaohsiung Shipyard of CSBC Corp., Taiwan on June 27. Chairman W.H. Huang of Yang Ming, and Chairman Wen-Lon Cheng of CSBC, jointly presided over the ceremony. |
