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The Grand Alliance - a consortium of the shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL - has launched its fourth Asia-Europe liner service.
This latest scheduled service called Loop D is jointly operated with the New World Alliance under the name China Europe Express (CEX).
The first vessel of the Loop D/CEX service to arrive in Hamburg was the NYK Lyra, with a capacity of 6,182 TEUs and 500 connections for reefers.
The shipping companies APL, Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL are deploying ten container ships with carrying capacities between 5,700 and 7,500 TEUs in this service.
The roundtrip of the weekly scheduled services takes 70 days, with ships sailing from Hamburg through the Suez canal and then directly to Singapore, and from there to the Chinese ports of Chiwan, Shekou, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shekou and Yantian. The return leg of the journey has a further stop in Singapore before returning to northern Europe.
Cargonews Asia
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