SEA-LAND, MAERSK ADD 3RD FAR EAST/NORTH EUROPE LOOP

   Sea-Land Service and Maersk Line are adding a third weekly Far
East/North Europe service as part of restructuring their Pacific and Far
East/Europe operations.
   Eastbound, the vessels of the new AE5 loop will call at Gothenburg,
Bremerhaven, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Algeciras, Salalah, Singapore, Yantian
and Hong Kong before proceeding across the Pacific.
   Westbound, the ship calls are Yokohama, Kobe, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong,
Yantian, Singapore, Algeciras, Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Gothenburg.
   In a related development, Sea-Land and Maersk have revised their AE2 Far East/North Europe service by adding weekly calls at Kwangyang and Yantian and removing Felixstowe from the rotation.
   The third Far East/North Europe loop narrows the gap between the
Sea-Land/Maersk alliance and the other global alliances, which already
operate three or more weekly services.