Maersk Line and MISC have significantly increased the coverage of a service linking Southeast Asia and Oceania, adding six calls and five vessels to their NZ1/NZE service, according to American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data.
The additions change the service from a loop to a butterfly arrangement, with new calls at Port Kelang, Brisbane, and Tauranga, and second calls to Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, and Auckland are added. The revised rotation is Port Kelang, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Auckland, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Brisbane, Auckland, Tauranga, and Port Kelang.
The five new vessels bring the total number of ships operated on the service to nine (seven from Maersk and two from MISC), though average vessel capacity (now 2,774 TEUs) has changed little.
Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Süd, and Alianca take slots on the service.
Maersk/MISC convert SE Asia-Oceania loop to butterfly
