CHINA SHIPPING TO ENTER PACIFIC MID-NOVEMBER

CHINA SHIPPING TO ENTER PACIFIC MID-NOVEMBER

   China Shipping Group, the expansion-driven Chinese
carrier, will launch a new transpacific container service mid-November.
    The service will call weekly at Xiamen, Yantian, Hong Kong, Kobe, Los
Angeles, Seattle, Yokohama, Kobe, Xiamen and Yantian again.
    The service will commence with the sailing of the Trade Apollo from
Xiamen on Nov. 18, due to arrive in Los Angeles on Dec. 5.
Westbound, the service will start from Los Angeles on Dec. 6.
    Six ships of about 2,200-TEU capacity will be employed, adding some
120,000 TEUs a year in ship capacity in each direction.
    China Shipping (North America) Agency Inc., a joint venture of Norton
Lilly International and China Shipping Group, will act as agent for the Pacific service.
    The move into the Pacific by China Shipping Group follows those of
Lykes Lines, Norasia, CMA CGM, Mediterranean Shipping Co., Great Western Steamship and
Trans-Pacific Lines, six other containership operators that have entered the Pacific trade
since the beginning of the year.
    The Shanghai-based carrier, which had planned to enter the Pacific in
September, burst into the liner trades earlier this year, when it entered the
Asia/Australia, Asia/northern Europe and Asia/Mediterranean trades in rapid succession.
    Details and transit times of the new transpacific service of China
Shipping Group are posted on the ComPairData global shipping database at
http://www.compairdata.com.