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Three trans-Atlantic services operated by the Grand Alliance will transfer their weekly port calls in the United Kingdom to Thamesport from Southampton in mid-May, Hutchison Ports, which operates the port, announced Thursday.
The Grand Alliance, which consists of Hapag-Lloyd, MISC Berhad, NYK and Orient Overseas Container Line, will switch calls by the PAX (Pacific Atlantic Express) service, the GAX (Gulf Atlantic Express) service and the GMX (Gulf of Mexico Express) service later this month.
The PAX service is a Japan-U.S. West Coast-U.S. East Coast- Northern Europe service. Hapag-Lloyd deploys 12 of the 13 vessels on this service, with the recently added the 4,900-TEU NYK Nebula to its deployment, which average 4,750 TEUs in per-ship capacity.
The rotation of the PAX service will be Thamesport, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Halifax, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Long Beach, Oakland, Yokohama, Kobe, Yantian, Hong Kong, Nagoya, Tokyo, Seattle, Oakland, Manzanillo, Savannah, Norfolk, New York, Halifax and Thamesport.
The GAX service is operated with five 3,237-TEU Charleston-class vessels deployed by Hapag-Lloyd. The service links Northern Europe with the U.S. South Atlantic coast with the following rotation as of mid-May: Thamesport, Bremerhaven, Charleston, Miami, Houston, Charleston, Norfolk, Antwerp and Thamesport.
The GMX service operates between the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Europe with six, 3,000-TEU Hapag-Lloyd vessels. The rotation will be Thamesport, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Le Havre, Veracruz, Altamira, Houston, New Orleans, Charleston and Thamesport.
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