Ocean carriers in the Grand Alliance group are consolidating two of their Asia-based service loops amid steep rate declines on the Pacific.
Member lines Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Orient Overseas Container Line agreed to merge the SCX (South China Sea Express) and the JCX (Japan China Express) into a single loop, effective May 25. MISC Berhad, which is withdrawing from Grand Alliance services between Europe and the Far East, does not operate on this trade and therefore did not participate in this agreement.
The SCX will add one vessel of 6,200 TEU capacity and call on Japanese ports previously covered on the JCX. Kaohsiung will be transferred to the Super Shuttle Express (SSX) service on the Trans-Pacific eastbound call, while the westbound call on SCX will remain unchanged.
Port rotation for both services is as follows:
- SCX: Laem Chabang/ Singapore/ Kobe/ Nagoya/ Tokyo/ Sendai/ Los Angeles/ Oakland/ Tokyo/ Nagoya/ Kobe/ Kaohsiung/ Shekou/ Laem Chabang
- SSX: Shekou/ Yantian/ Hong Kong/ Kaohsiung/ Long Beach/ Kaohsiung/ Xiamen/ Hong Kong/ Shekou.
The Journal of Commerce Online
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