ASIA-AUSTRALIA CONSORTIUM REVISE SERVICE

   A consortium of Asia/Australia container carriers are changing their joint service and reducing their joint fleet from five to four vessels, effective Sept. 10.
    The AAX consortium of Australian National Line, APL, NYK, Djakarta Lloyd and P&O Nedlloyd is withdrawing the Australian Enterprise, operated by Australian National Line, at the completion of the ship’s current northbound voyage.
    The new schedule of the consortium will consist of two fortnightly loops, replacing a single weekly service.
    The first loop will have a rotation of Port Kelang, Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle and Port Kelang.
Loop two will call at Port Kelang, Singapore, Fremantle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle and Port Kelang.
    The consortium has been able to withdraw one vessel by dropping the call in Hobart, Tasmania, by combining the previous load and discharge calls in Singapore to a single call in Singapore, and by increasing the speed of the service.
    Details of the revised service and transit times are posted on the ComPair Data global shipping database on at https://www.compairdata.com.