Grand Alliance members OOCL and Hapag Lloyd are replacing smaller vessels on the joint NWX service operated in cooperation with ZIM with two ships with a capacity of 8,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units and three 7,500-TEU ships.
The new ships are currently the largest vessels to call the Port of Seattle on a regular basis.
The 8,000-TEU OOCL Ningbo was the first of the new ships to call at the Port of Seattle on the NWX service.
“These large ships bring more capacity to the Port of Seattle and demonstrate that we can handle some of the largest container ships afloat,” said Port of Seattle Managing Director Charlie Sheldon. “Our deep water terminals, cranes and related infrastructure are capable of handling anything the industry sends our way.”
The port rotation of the NWX service is Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao, Busan, Seattle, Vancouver, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Ningbo.
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