AE1-AE10 rotation details emerge

AE1-AE10 rotation details emerge    Rotation details have emerged about the splitting of Maersk's Line's former AE1/AE10 butterfly service between Asia and Europe.
   American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data reported Thursday that the services, which will operate individually, will omit some calls made by the linked up service. American Shipper reported on the splitting of the two loops in late February.
   ComPair Data said the AE1 will have a rotation of Hakata, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Tanger, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas and Hakata. The service will operate with 12 8,000-TEU ships.
   Meanwhile, the AE10 will have a rotation of Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Gdansk, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Hong Kong, Gwangyang and Ningbo. The service will operate with 11 vessels of 13,000 to 15,000 TEUs.
   The new rotations omit calls at Jeddah, Jebel Ali, Kaohsiung, Singapore and Da Chan Bay. The previous joint service was operated with 21 ships with an average capacity of 8,785 TEUs.