APL, TMM, LYKES ADD LOS ANGELES CALL TO MEXICO/ASIA LOOP

   APL and Transportacion Maritima Mexicana will reinstate a call at Los Angeles on their joint Mexico Asia Express service early next month when Lykes Lines joins the service.
    The change will form part of a revision of the weekly container service when Lykes Lines will enter the Pacific trade by buying space from APL and TMM.
    The addition of a Los Angeles call will reverse a decision by APL and TMM, announced in March, to make the service call only at Asian and Mexican ports, with no stop at U.S. Pacific ports en route.
    A spokesman for APL said that the company could not comment on the change.
    According to Lykes, the revised rotation of the service will be: Hong Kong (Thursday/Friday); Kaohsiung (Saturday/Saturday); Busan (Tuesday/Tuesday); Kobe (departure Thursday); Yokohama (departure Friday); Los Angeles (Monday/Monday); Ensenada (Tuesday/Tuesday) and Manzanillo (Friday/Saturday), Mexico; Yokohama (arrival Saturday); Kobe (arrival Monday) and Hong Kong again.
    Details of the revised transit times, rotation and vessels for this service are available on the ComPair Data global shipping database on https://www.compairdata.com .