All change in Cagliari

The long established Asia–Mediterranean–US East Coast pendulum, operated by the Grand Alliance, has now evolved into the AZX Service “Asia Suez Express”, known as ‘G6’.

Ships deployed will continue to be in the 5,000 – 7,500 teu range, provided by APL, Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL.  Frequency remains unchanged with weekly westbound and eastbound calls, which the port sees as opening up new opportunities for APL, HMM and MOL who join the existing partners of Hapag Lloyd, NYK and OOCL.

As part of the changes, Hapag Lloyd has re-jigged its Med Gulf Express (MGX) fleet, replacing two ships with larger vessels, increasing nominal capacity by some 30%.