APL to offer time definite delivery to inland points

APL said it will offer day-definite arrival of shipments using its Eagle Express service from ports in the Far East to rail yards in Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, El Paso, Kansas City and Memphis.    CMA CGM’s subsidiary APL said it will offer day-definite arrival of shipments using its Eagle Express (EX1) service from ports in the Far East to rail yards in Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, El Paso, Kansas City and Memphis.
   Cargo using what APL calls its Eagle Guaranteed service will be transferred from containerships to trains at the Global Gateway South (GGS) Terminal in Los Angeles.
   The rotation of the EX1 service is Qingdao, Shanghai, Busan, Los Angeles, Oakland, Dutch Harbor, Yokohama, Busan, Naha and Qingdao. According to ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting, the loop deploys six vessels averaging 4,944 TEUs.
   Jesper Stenbak, APL Senior Vice President of Trans-Pacific Trade, said the Eagle Guaranteed service guarantees “customers day-definite arrival of their full container loads at various inland locations in the Americas, offering them superior speed-to-market. Importantly, Eagle Guaranteed is an assurance of vessel space and equipment for their cargo, a critical advantage especially during the peak trading season.”
   The EX1 service “has a near perfect on time arrival record at the Port of Los Angeles,” he said. “With Eagle Guaranteed, APL is raising the bar of our EX1 service to a time-definite one.”
   The company said, “Coupled with APL’s Eagle Stow service that enables cargo availability within 12 hours of vessel cargo operation and ready-cargo on-chassis from the terminal, APL-dedicated trains have been rapidly loaded on-dock for prompt transits to the inland destinations.”