UNITED ALLIANCE ADDS YANTIAN CALL TO TRANSPACIFIC SERVICE

UNITED ALLIANCE ADDS YANTIAN CALL TO TRANSPACIFIC SERVICE    United Alliance carriers Hanjin Shipping, Senator Lines and Cho Yang have added a direct call at Yantian, in South China, to their joint all-water East Coast AWE-PDM container service.
   The first Hanjin vessel to serve the port of Yantian will be the 2,700-TEU-class “Berlin Senator,” sailing from Pusan to Yantian on Jan. 20.
   The AWE-PDM “pendulum” weekly service covers the transpacific and transatlantic trades within a single rotation, using 13 ships of about 2,700-TEU capacity.
   “As a consequence of the improved economic outlook in China, this new call to Yantian will enable Hanjin Shipping to offer broader scope of services,” said a Hanjin spokesman.
   The AWE-PDM joint service has a rotation of Yantian, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Pusan, Manzanillo (Mexico), Manzanillo (Panama), Savannah, Norfolk, New York, Felixstowe, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Le Havre, New York, Norfolk, Manzanillo (Panama), Manzanillo (Mexico), Long Beach, Pusan, and Yantian.