COSCO REVISES SERVICES IN ASIA/AUSTRALASIA TRADE
Shanghai-based COSCO Container Lines is reorganizing its two fixed-day weekly services connecting Asia and Australia-New Zealand.
By early March, the North Asia/Australia-New Zealand and China/East Australia services will be revamped, with one service becoming dedicated to Australia and the other service concentrating on New Zealand.
The North Asia/Australia-New Zealand link, which has called at Sydney and Brisbane, will dropped calls to Australia. The Korean port of Busan will also be dropped from the service rotation. Calls to Hong Kong, Manila and alternating fortnightly calls to Tauranga and New Plymouth in New Zealand will be added.
The rotation for the new Japan/Korea/China-New Zealand service will be Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong, Manila, Auckland, Tauranga (fortnightly), Lyttelton, Nelson, New Plymouth (fortnightly), Yokohama, Kobe, Hong Kong and Manila.
The China/East Australia service, to be named
“Japan/Korea/China-Australia” service, will start calling at Yokohama, Kobe, Busan and Kwangyang.
The rotation for the new service will be Yokohama, Kobe, Busan, Kwangyang, Shanghai, Huangpu, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Yokohama, Kobe, Busan, Kwangyang, Shanghai, Huangpu and Hong Kong.
Details of the revised transit times and days of arrival and departure are available from the free on-line global shipping schedules web site http://www.compairschedules.com .