Evergreen Line, China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and ZIM Integrated Shipping Services are launching a new joint weekly Asia-Europe service, commencing in late April 2011.
Dubbed "CES2" by Evergreen and "AEX2" by CSCL and ZIM, the new service will add the ports of Xiamen in south China and Antwerp in Belgium to enhance space availability for shippers utilising Asia-Europe services.
The three carriers together will deploy nine ships with capacity of between 8,000 and 8,500TEU. Evergreen will supply five 8,000TEU vessels. One 8,000TEU and two 8,500TEU vessels will come from ZIM's fleet and one 8,000TEU vessel from CSCL. The ZIM 'Antwerp' will initiate the new service from Qingdao on April 24 with the following 63-day rotation:
Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Xiamen – Yantian – Tanjung Pelepas – Port Klang – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Antwerp – Tanjung Pelepas – Qingdao.