TWO all-water services offered by the New World Alliance (NWA), the SZX and the ESX, will start calling at Savannah this summer, one through Suez and the other through Panama.
The weekly NWA service, which transports containers via the Suez Canal is called the Suez Express (SZX), will deploy eight vessels, with APL providing five while Hyundai Merchant Marine and MOL will operate the other three.
The SZX will originate in Singapore and call at Colombo and Savannah before returning via Jebel Ali, Port Kelang and Singapore. It will take 25 days for the SZX service to transit from Singapore to Savannah.
The second new NWA service that will use Panama is a weekly service known as the East Coast Savannah Express (ESX). The ESX will deploy eight vessels: one from APL, two from non-NWA partner line CMA CGM, three operated by HMM and two operated by MOL.
The ESX, named the SAX by CMA CGM, will originate in Ningbo then call on Shanghai, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Panama, Savannah, New York, Norfolk, Panama and return to Ningbo. It will offer a transit time of 22 days from Hong Kong to Savannah, which will make it the fastest service to the US east coast.
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