COLUMBUS LINE ADDS VESSEL TO FAR EAST LEG OF AMPAC SERVICE
Columbus Line will add a vessel to the Far East service leg of its West Coast Americas service (AMPAC), which it operates with Maruba and TMM.
The service upgrade will is scheduled to start Dec. 12, with the sailing of the 1,150-TEU Columbus Pacific to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Columbus Line, Maruba and TMM started the service in May, comprising two strings. One string uses three vessels, two supplied by Columbus Line, operating a 42-day round trip rotation between Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Long Beach and West Coast Latin America ports as far south as Lirquen, Chile. Columbus Line will shift the Columbus Pacific from the first string to the second string, which operates between Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Busan, Long Beach and West Coast South America ports.