APL initiated a peak-season service to the Port of Seattle. The P1A service with ships of 2,300-TEU capacity will call in Seattley every other Thursday through October.

The peak season service links Seattley with Hong Kong, Yantian and Chiwany, China, and Busany, South Korea.

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• CMA CGM UPS capacity at the Columbus Service

     CMA CGM Group said it is increasing the size of ships on the butterfly Columbusy service that connects Asia with Pacific Northwest ports on one leg and the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal on its other leg. “We have decided to optimize the Columbusy service to keep pace with

• Evergreen to launch new UAM, leaves joint service

     Container line Evergreen will on May 10 resume its UAM pendulum service between Asia, Europe and the Pacific Northwest. Evergreen had temporarily suspended the service in October. The service will have a rotation of Kaohsiungy, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Colomboy, Ashdody, Alexandriay, Tarantoy, Genoay, Barcelonay, Valencia, Tarantoy, Colomboy, Tanjung Pelepas, Kaohsiungy,

• Hanjin, Wan Hai cooperate in the Trans-Pacific

     Hanjin Shipping and Wan Hai Lines are tightening ranks in the trans-Pacific by establishing a vessel-sharing agreement on Hanjin’s Vietnam-U.S. service and setting up a cross-charter arrangement on a second Hanjin loop. Both arrangements, part of a service-sharing pattern many carriers have been implementing worldwide to reduce capacity and costs, will

• Hamburg Sd Changes terminals in Seattle

     Hamburg Süd moved its Pacific Coast / South America West Coast service to a new terminal in Seattley. Since Nov. 1, the service is calling at Terminal 46 – Total Terminals International. The Pacific Coast / Australia-New Zealand service will continue to call at Terminal 18 in Seattley, the carrier said. The

• Evergreen, CSCL to launch joint service

     Evergreen Marine Corp. and China Shipping Container Line will launch a joint weekly service linking ports in Asia with the Pacific Northwest. The carriers will operate six vessels, each with a capacity of 5,500 20-foot equivalent units, in a vessel sharing arrangement that will result in a more efficient and convenient

• MISC Quits Grand Alliance

     The Grand Alliancey is losing one of its four carrier members, MISC Berhad (Malaysia), which said it is withdrawing from the group as of Jan.

• Evergreen scales back intra-Asia loop

     Evergreen Line has reduced the number of ships serving on its intra-Asia B Loop, and has also scaled back the rotation of the service. The service will now be operated with three ships instead of four. The new rotation is Kaohsiungy, Taichungy, Taipeiy, Hong Kong, Yantian, Pasir Gudang, Tenjung, Port Klang,

• New World Alliance modernizations U.S. Service

     The New World Alliance (TNWA) carriers – APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) – have announced plans to revamp the Pacific Southwest Express (PSX) service. TNWA will add one ship to the PSX service for a direct service from Thailand to the US West Coast. The revised

• Evergreen Line to improve intra-Asia routes

     Effective September 15th, Evergreen Line will launch the new JVT service on the growing Intra-Asia trade. The JVT service will be operated independently by Evergreen. The carrier will deploy four 900 TEU containerships with the following 28-day rotation: Nagoyay > Toyko > Osakay > Kobey > Keelungy > Kaohsiungy > Hong

• Evergreen boosts U.S. West Coast-Asia-Mediterranean-cover

     Evergreen Line will reintroduce a twenty-port pendulum service covering a region ranging from Tacomay to Valencia in Spain, via the Far East, Middle East and Suez Canal. ? Effective May 10th, the US West Coast – Asia -Mediterranean (UAM) service will replace the current Asia-Pacific-North West Coast (PNM) and Far-East