Evergreen, COSCO add ports, ship to Far East-Red Sea service

Evergreen, COSCO add ports, ship to Far East-Red Sea service Evergreen Marine and COSCO Container Lines will add calls at China's ports of Shanghai and Ningbo as well as a seventh vessel to their joint weekly Far East-Red Sea (FRS) service.
   The revised port rotation of the FRS will begin when the vessel “Ever Growth” departs Nansha on Dec. 31 and will call at Shanghai, Ningbo, Nansha, Hong Kong, Shekou, Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas, Aden, Jeddah, Aqaba, Sokhna Port, Singapore and back to Shanghai.
   Evergreen will provide five of the seven ships each with a capacity of about 2,700 TEUs, while COSCO contributes the other two. German carrier Hapag-Lloyd takes space on the service.