Hamburg Sud, Maersk Line, and NYK announce cooperation in the Asia - South Africa - East Coast South

Hamburg Sud, Maersk Line, and NYK announces that they have reached agreement to operate jointly in the trade between Asia, South Africa, and South America.

With the aim to improve efficiency and the quality of the service offered to customers, the lines will as from mid April onwards, replace the presently operated three strings (one operated by Maersk Line and two operated by Hamburg Sud and NYK) by two strings with modern and fast vessels.

The rotation of the new service will be as follows:

●String 1 operated with 10 x 3,500 TEU vessels of which Hamburg Sud will provide six and Maersk Line four:

Shanghai - Hong Kong - Singapore - Tanjung Pelepas - Sepetiba - Santos - Buenos Aires - Rio Grande - Paranagua - Santos - Port Elizabeth - Durban - Singapore - Hong Kong - Shanghai

●String 2 operated with 10 x 2500 TEU vessels of which NYK will provide six, Maersk Line three and Hamburg Sud one:

Nagoya - Yokohama - Pusan - Hong Kong - Laem Chabang - Singapore - Tanjung Pelepas - Durban - Santos - Itajai - Santos - Sepetiba - Singapore - Hong Kong- Nagoya

The overall capacity produced by the new two string system is roughly the same as the capacity presently provided by the three Lines.