Container shipping line APL will suspend its Singapore Subcontinent Express (SSX) service that connects Nhava Sheva with Singapore, Port Klang and Chinese ports of Shanghai and Chiwan, the Hindu Business Line reported.
APL has said that the suspension, which starts from November 2, is part of its reduction in capacity and changes to its global service network in response to increasingly challenging conditions in the major container trades.
The SSX route will be now covered by a combination of the China-Middle East Express (CMX) and the China-Singapore Service (CSS).
The Singapore Subcontinent Express was launched in November 2004. It provided an extensive inland network in the India West Coast via the Nhava Sheva gateway.
APL, a member of the New World Alliance, said that it will reduce capacity in the Asia-Europe trade by close to 25 percent, on the transpacific trade by 20 percent and also restructure its Inter-Asia services.
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