Grand Alliance and NWA team up to become G6 alliance

Member shipping lines of the Grand Alliance and New World Alliance are merging their powers in the traffic from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean:

A new alliance has been formed with regard to scheduled operations from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean. The member shipping companies of the Grand World Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Nippon Yusen Kaisha, OOCL Orient Overseas Container Line) and the New World Alliance (APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines) are merging their operations in the G6 alliance on the mentioned routes starting April 2012.

This integrated cooperation creates a major network with more than 90 ships – among them units with a capacity of 14.000 TEU – in nine loops. The joint services of the six container shipping lines will call at more than 40 ports in Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean. The service will now also include a direct Far East-Baltic service with calls at Gdansk in Poland and Gothenburg in Sweden.

From the present point of view the port rotation looks as follows.

Loop 1: Japan – Hong Kong – Cai Mep – Singapore – Jeddah– Rotterdam – Hamburg – Southampton – Le Havre – Singapore – Hong Kong – Japan

Loop 2: Dalian – Xingang – Pusan – Qingdao – Singapore – Hamburg – Antwerp – Southampton – Salalah – Jebel Ali – Singapore – Pusan – Dalian

Loop 3: Shanghai – Ningbo – South China – Singapore – Tangier – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven – Gdansk – Gothenburg – Rotterdam – Jeddah – Singapore – South China – Hong Kong – Shanghai

Loop 4: Shanghai – Ningbo – South China – Singapore – Southampton – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Singapore –South China – Shanghai

Loop 5: Kwangyang – Pusan – Shanghai – South China – Singapore – Le Havre – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Thamesport – Singapore – Kwangyang

Loop 6: Kaohsiung – Xiamen – South China – Hong Kong – Singapore – Colombo – Southampton – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Singapore – South China – Kaohsiung

Loop 7: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Hong Kong – South China – Singapore – Salalah – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Southampton – Tangier – Port Said – Singapore – South China – Qingdao

Loop 8: Pusan – Shanghai – Ningbo – South China – Hong Kong – Singapore – Port Klang – Jeddah – Damietta – Genoa – FOS Sur Mer – Barcelona – Valencia – Damietta – Jeddah – Singapore – Hong Kong

Loop 9 (Asia / Black Sea) is still in planning.

Quelle: LogEastics
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