YANGMING, COSCO AND "K" LINE ADD YANTIAN TRANSPACIFIC CALL

   Yangming Marine Transport, China Ocean Shipping Co. and "K" Line are revising their joint "PSW 2/CALCO-Y" weekly service by adding a direct call at Yantian.
   The first call at the South Chinese port for the service is scheduled on Dec. 3.
   The service uses six 3,266-TEU containerships of Yangming, operated within its alliance with COSCO and "K" Line. The revised rotation of the service is Yantian, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Busan, Los Angeles, Oakland, Tokyo, Kobe, Busan, Shanghai and Yantian. Weekly calls at Taichung, Taiwan, are being discontinued.
   COSCO, Yangming and "K" Line already operate two weekly transpacific strings calling direct at South Chinese ports, according to ComPairData, the global shipping database on the Internet at https://www.compairdata.com.
   Their joint "SEA/CALCO-S" service calls at Shekou and the "PSW 1/CALCO-A" loop calls at Yantian.
   The South China expansion by the alliance of Asian carriers is the latest of a series of additional ports calls and services by transpacific carriers to capitalize on the boom of the China/U.S. traffic.
   Yangming said that it received the approval of mainland Chinese authorities to call at the Chinese ports at the end of September.
   Transit time information on all the direct China/U.S. services are available on the ComPairData subscription-based web site and on the new free-access web site of American Shipper at https://www.americanshipper.com.