CKYH expands cooperation with Evergreen in April

Hanjin Shipping (Hanjin) and CKYH jointly announced with Evergreen Line that all parties intend to enhance the highest frequency of service loops, expedition of delivery terms, full scale port coverage in their services, and agreed to strengthen cooperation among one another in Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trade lanes from April.

Especially, the scale of Asia-Europe trade is the biggest and fastest service among others - while running the whole distance between Shanghai/Ningbo to Rotterdam/Hamburg/Felixstowe in 26~27 days.

CKYH and Evergreen will provide the services 8 times per week in Asia-Europe and 4 times per week in the Asia-Mediterranean trade. The new service not only includes calls at Rijeka, Koper, and Trieste in the Adriatic Sea, but also Istanbul, Constanta, and Ilyichevsk in Black Sea. The participating carriers will deploy a total of 100 x 8,000~13,000 TEU vessels to operate the 12 routes in Asia-Europe.

A representative from Hanjin Shipping said, “We are confident that the biggest services will improve operational quality and deliver better efficiency to our customers.” < 김보람 기자 brkim@ksg.co.kr >