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CKYH provides details in Asia-Europe strings

   COSCO said Friday that CKYH – the Green Alliance, which includes COSCO, “K” Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin Shipping, is reorganizing its service network for Asia-North Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades in 2013.
   The CKYH Alliance will be providing four loops (NE2, NE3, NE6 and NE7) for Asia-North Europe and three loops (MD1, MD2, and MD3) for Asia-Mediterranean from the early April 2013.
   They will suspend existing NE1 service and not resume NE4 service, suspended back in October 2012, but will retain the NE1 and NE4 port coverage by the new services to maintain service quality.
   Here are details on the port rotations for each of the services:

  • NE2 – Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Yantian, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Port Said, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Xiamen.
  • NE3 – Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Singapore, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp , Hong Kong, and Xingang.
  • NE6 – Xingang, Kwangyang, Pusan, Shanghai, Xiamen, Yantian, Singapore, Algeciras, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Le Havre, Algeciras, Singapore, Yantian, Hong Kong, and Xingang.
  • NE7 – Ningbo, Shanghai, Nansha, Hong Kong, Singapore, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Singapore, Nansha, Yantian, Kaohsiung, and Ningbo.
  • MD1 – Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Hong Kong, Nansha, Singapore, Piraeus, La Spezia, Genoa, Barcelona, Valencia, Piraeus, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Qingdao.
  • MD2 – Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Yantian, Singapore, Port Said, Ashdod, Genoa, Barcelona, Fos, Port Said, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Ningbo.
  • MD3 – Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, Singapore, Port Said, Napoli, Livorno, La Spezia, Port Said, Singapore, Hochimin, Hong Kong, Yantian, and Ningbo. – Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin has written about trade and transportation and other business subjects for a variety of publications before joining American Shipper and Freightwaves.