The member lines of container shipping’s Grand Alliance have announced, that in partnership with The New World Alliance that a new service to and from Asia and the Black Sea, has commenced from the 25th of June.

The Grand Alliance  which is considered as the the leading integrated consortium in global container shipping, is made up of Hapag-Lloyd, MISC Berhad, NYK and OOCL, while The New World Alliance features such shipping lines as APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines  and CMA CGM.

Since starting cooperation in February with a slot exchange on their respective fortnightly services to the Black Sea. The new joint service will now provide shippers a weekly frequency with common port.

Eight vessels are to be deployed on the route between Asia and the Black Sea, with the Grand Alliance operating five vessels and The New World Alliance three.  The capacity of the eight ships operating the service will be approximately 5,000 Twenty-Foot equivalent units.

Ports that will make up the service’s rotation are Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, and Singapore in Asia, whilst the ports of Suez, Istanbul, Constanza, Odessa, Damietta and Jeddah are the services Black Sea region destinations.

Source: Hapag Lloyd and Logistics Insight Asia

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