Container shipping giant, Hapag Lloyd has announced that the company will expand it’s Asia Mexico (AME) Services to a twice weekly service with varied rotations from mid June

The company says that the new services will provide customers with improvements in transport capacities, with three additional port calls in Asia, as well as weekly departures from Mexico.

The new services will see Hapag Lloyd in cooperation with American President Lines deploy 12 vessels in total, with Hapag Lloyd’s contribution being six 4200 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit tonne container vessels.

Divided into two services AME 1 and AME 2, AME 1 will call at Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai, Busan, Yokohama, Ensenada, Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Ensenada and Yokohama ports, while AME 2 sees vessels call into the ports of Xiamen, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Kaohsiung, Lazaro Cardenas - Manzanillo and Yokohama.

Hapag Lloyd plans to initiate the expanded AME Services from the 14th of June with expected transit times to be reduced from twenty-three days to fifteen.

Source: Hapag Lloyd

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