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Horizon Lines to Add New Containers for China Service Launch

10/28/2010 10:34:22 AM

Horizon Lines said it will add approximately 12,500 new containers to its international and domestic shipping network to support the launch of its new weekly liner service between China and the U.S. in December.

 

The Five Star Express, as the new service is called, is already 45 percent booked for its first sailing on Dec. 13, according to Brian Taylor, senior vice president of International Services at Horizon Lines.

 

The new service, which will call at Shanghai and Ningbo in Central China; and Los Angeles and Oakland in California, will use five Hunter Class vessels, which each have a capacity of 2,824 20-foot equivalent container units.

 

As planned, the Five Star Express will provide a transit time of 11 days from Shanghai to Los Angeles, with Monday morning cargo availability every week at the nation's busiest import gateway.

 

Five of Horizon Lines' vessels currently call ports in China under its space charter agreement with Maersk Line. Once that agreement expires on December 1, Horizon Lines will begin transporting general cargo to the U.S. from Ningbo and Shanghai on behalf of its own commercial customers.

 

The Journal of Commerce Online

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