CKYH reshapes Asia/North Europe network

CKYH reshapes Asia/North Europe network    CKYH Alliance carriers said Wednesday they are adjusting their service network on loops between Asia and northern Europe from early April.
   COSCO Container Lines, 'K' Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping will amend the rotations of three of their five existing services on the trade and add a sixth service, as American Shipper reported in mid-February.
   CKYH's Asia/Northern Europe loops are named NE 1-5. The new loop will be dubbed NE 6 and will call at Korean ports dropped off the NE 5 rotation. Once the changes are made, the alliance's network will look like this:
   ' NE 1 will have a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Nansha, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Singapore, Yantian and Shanghai. Changes include dropped Algeciras calls and an eastbound call at Nansha. According to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data, the service operates with nine vessels (four each from COSCO and Hanjin, and one from 'K' Line) with an average capacity of 9,119 TEUs.
   ' NE 2, with an unchanged rotation of Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Jeddah, Singapore, Shekou, Hong Kong and Xiamen. It operates with nine vessels (five from Yang Ming and four from 'K' Line) averaging 8,178 TEUs.
   ' NE 3 will have a rotation of Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Yantian, Singapore, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp, Nansha, Hong Kong and Xingang. The one change is an eastbound call at Yantian will switch to Nansha. The service operates with 10 COSCO vessels averaging 8,903 TEUs.
   ' NE 4, with an unchanged rotation of Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Said, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Port Said, Singapore, Hong Kong and Qingdao. It operates with 10 vessels (four each from 'K' Line and Yang Ming, one from Hanjin, and one unallocated) with an average capacity of 8,369 TEUs.
   ' NE 5 will have a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Singapore, Vung Tau, Singapore, Algeciras, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Le Havre, Algeciras, Singapore and Shanghai. Major changes include eliminating calls at the South Korean ports of Busan and Gwangyang, and a westbound call at Kaohsiung. Added to the loop are calls at Ningbo and a second eastbound call at Algeciras, where CKYH member Hanjin has established a Med hub. The service operates with nine Hanjin vessels averaging 6,521 TEUs.
   ' The new NE 6 service will have a rotation of Gwangyang, Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Yantian, Felixstowe, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Singapore and Gwangyang. ' Eric Johnson