Chinese carrier Sinotrans Container Lines (Sinolines) has left the transpacific trade and temporarily closed its exclusive North American agency in Long Beach.
The carrier had been a participant since mid-November on compatriot COSCO Container Lines' weekly Central China-Long Beach Express (CLX), which COSCO's latest schedule describes as being "on hiatus." The CLX had used four containerships averaging about 2,800 TEUs on a rotation of Ningbo, Shanghai, Long Beach and back to Ningbo.
Before the partnership with COSCO, Sinolines was part of a vessel sharing agreement with CSAV Norasia and Wan Hai that ceased towards the end of last year when the MTP loop was pulled.
A spokesman for Sinotrans Shipping Agency (NA) Inc., the Shanghai-based carrier's U.S. agency that is temporarily suspending operations, said the carrier is looking for another service partner to re-enter the transpacific sometime later this year.
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