ZIM to realign Asia-Europe service

ZIM recently announced the realignment of its Asia-Europe Express service (AEX1). The service, deploying 9 ships of 8,500 to 10,000 TEU capacity and operated jointly with CSCL, offers coverage of major Asian and North European ports with superior transit times.

As from mid-June, the AEX1 revised rotation will add the port of Antwerp and Nansha, and will be as follows:

Shanghai-Ningbo-Yantian- Felixstowe-Hamburg-Rotterdam-Antwerp- Nansha-Shanghai

The first sailing under the new alignment is MV Xin Ya Zhou 78W planned to sail from Shanghai on June 12. ZIM will deploy 3 x 10,000 TEU ships, the ZIM Antwerp,

ZIM Rotterdam and Tianjin in this route. Rafi Ben-ARI, ZIM VP Shipping, said, "AEX1 is a premium service, offering customers optimal solution and best-in-the-market transit times in this major trade." < Korea Shipping Gazette >