UASC ENTERS U.S./NORTH EUROPE TRADE, UPGRADES ASIA/U.S. EAST COAST

UASC ENTERS U.S./NORTH EUROPE TRADE, UPGRADES ASIA/U.S. EAST COAST    United Arab Shipping Co. will enter the U.S./northern Europe trade and expand its Asia/U.S. East Coast service offering next month.
   The Mideast-based carrier, a member of the United Alliance, will start taking space on the U.S./Panama/Asia/Panama/U.S./north Europe/U.S.
“All-Water East Coast Pendulum” service of fellow alliance carriers Hanjin Shipping and Senator Lines.
   Anil J. Vitharana, president of United Arab Agencies, said that UASC has been present in the U.S./Mediterranean trade for about 20 years, and is now adding a U.S./northern Europe weekly service.
   The carrier will take between 100 and 250 slots a week on the service. “I don’t think that this will disrupt the market,”    Vitharana said.
   In a related move, UASC will also take space on the transpacific leg of the same pendulum service. The transpacific and transatlantic service calls at New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Manzanillo (Panama), Manzanillo (Mexico), Long Beach, Busan, Yantian, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Busan, Manzanillo (Mexico), Manzanillo (Panama), Savannah, Norfolk, New York, Felixstowe, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Le Havre and New York.
   Vitharana said that transit times between North Asia and the U.S. East Coast on the carrier’s new transpacific service via Panama will be faster than those of its existing “AMA” service via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.
   The comparative transit times of all transpacific and transatlantic services are posted on the global schedules database ComPairSchedules at https://www.compairschedules .