5 carriers reconfigure Asia – Mexico/West Coast South America service

Aerial view of the Manzanillo Port

To cover peak season demand Hanjin, Hamburg Süd, CCNI, China Shipping and Hyundai will reconfigure their service between Asia and Mexico/ West Coast South America.

The new service will continue to operate with two slings at increased capacity and new rotations, starting with the South America configuration in June, and finalizing with the Asia configuration at the end of August 2012.

Sling 1 will see the deployment of ten vessels with a capacity between 4,500 and 5,700 TEU (nominal) (previously eleven 5,500 TEU vessels).

The port rotation in Sling 1 starting in June 2012 is as follows: Shanghai – Ningbo – Shekou – Hong Kong – Busan – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Lazaro Cardenas – Callao – Iquique – Puerto Angamos – Valparaiso – Keelung.

The port rotation in Sling 1 starting in August 2012 is as follows: Keelung – Hong Kong – Shekou – Xiamen – Ningbo – Shanghai – Busan – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Lazaro Cardenas – Callao – Iquique – Puerto Angamos – Valparaiso – Keelung.

In Sling 2 eleven container ships with a capacity of 5,500 TEU (nominal) will be deployed (previously ten ships with a capacity between 3,100 and 4,500 TEU).

The port rotation in Sling 2 starting in June 2012: Keelung – Hong Kong – Xiamen – Ningbo – Shanghai – Busan – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Balboa – Buenaventura – Guayaquil – Puerto Angamos – Valparaiso – San Vicente – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Busan – Shanghai.

The port rotation in Sling 2 starting in August 2012: Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian – Hong Kong – Busan – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Balboa – Buenaventura – Guayaquil – Puerto Angamos – Valparaiso – San Vicente – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Busan – Shanghai.

The new service concept with rotation changes in South America will commence with the “Xin da Lian” (Sling 1) from Shanghai on June 17, 2012 (135E) and the “Monte Sarmiento” (Sling 2) from Keelung on June 12, 2012 (224E).

The new service rotation will finalize in Asia with the “Xin da Lian” (Sling 1) from Keelung on August 26, 2012 (137E) and the “Monte Sarmiento” (Sling 2) from Shanghai on August 30, 2012 (235E).

With the above service optimization Hamburg Süd and their partners will improve transit times – eastbound and westbound – for their markets in Asia, Mexico and South America West Coast and ensure faster connection to the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean service network of the shipping group via Balboa. < Korea Shipping Gazette >