MOL revises Asia-West Mediterranean-North Europe services

With effect from 23 December 2008, a revised ‘MED’ service will be operated by the New World Alliance (TNWA) carriers – MOL, APL, and Hyundai Merchant Marine – and include the Grand Alliance (GA) lines – Hapag-Lloyd, MISC Berhad, NYK), and OOCL. The service changes will allow the shipping lines to maintain service quality and provide better port coverage for customers.

The new service will deploy eight 6,000 TEU-capacity ships with TNWA and GA providing two and six vessels, respectively. Four new port calls at Jeddah, Pusan, Shekou and Valencia will be added to the service.

The revised port rotation will be Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan, Shekou, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Kelang, Jeddah, Damietta, Genoa, Fos, Barcelona, Valencia, Damietta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Pusan.