COSCO EXTENDS MED/U.S. SERVICE TO HALIFAX

MINETA: SEARCH CONTINUES FOR NEW MARITIME ADMINISTRATOR    COSCO Container Lines is extending its Genoa/New York shuttle service to Halifax, Canada, at the end of this month.
   The first sailing to Halifax will be by the 1,702-TEU Xiang Yun He, due to leave Genoa on April 29 and arrive in Halifax on May 10.
   Genoa-based Coscos, the Italian general agent of the Chinese shipping line, said the three-ship service will call at Halifax on two weekly sailings out of three. The service will continue to call at Genoa and New York once a week.
   COSCO will provide on-carriage for Montreal, Toronto, other Canadian inland destinations, and for U.S. Midwest and West Coast destinations.
   For COSCO, the addition of a third port of call on the service represents a departure from its original concept of a pure shuttle service.
   The revised transit times of the Mediterranean/U.S./Canada service and comparative transit times of all the other transatlantic liner services are posted on the global liner shipping database ComPairData at https://www.compairdata.com .