Container line Hapag-Lloyd has joined a Far East/Australia service operated by ANL, China Shipping and OOCL, according to ComPair Data.
Hapag-Lloyd has become a slot buyer on the AANA service, which has a rotation of Yokohama, Osaka, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Yokohama.
The service is operated with five vessels averaging 4,316 TEUs, with ANL providing three vessels and OOCL and China Shipping one each.
Hapag-Lloyd also buys slots on four other Asia/Australia services -- both loops of the COSCO/MOL-led NZJ service, the Maersk- and MSC-operated Boomerang service, and the five-ship CAX service operated by three intra-Asia carriers.
The AANA that Hapag-Lloyd is joining, along with the Maersk-MSC Boomerang service, uses the largest vessels on the lane.
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