Thamesport to lose its last three deep sea services

The three services involved are:

• Europe-USEC-US Gulf service (GAX), operated by Hapag-Lloyd with 3,200 teu ships. NYK, OOCL and ACL slots. Revised rotation: Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Southampton, Charleston, Port Everglades, Houston, Savannah, Norfolk, Antwerp.
• North Europe-US Gulf-Mexico service (GuMex/GMX), operated by Hapag-Lloyd with 2,800 to 3,600 teu ships. OOCL slots. Revised rotation: Southampton, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Le Havre, Vera Cruz, Altamira, Houston, New Orleans, Southampton.
• Atlantic Express service (string of PAX), operated by Hapag-Lloyd with NYK 4,600 to 4,800 teu ships. OOCL and NYK slot on the whole service while ACL slots on the Europe-USEC leg only. Revised rotation: Southampton, Antwerp, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Halifax, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Manzanillo (Panama). Far East, Tacoma, Oakland, Los Angeles, Manzanillo (Panama), Savannah, Norfolk, New York, Halifax, Southampton.

In February, the G6 alliance dropped Thamesport from its Asia-Europe Loop 5 and moved to Southampton, following the phasing in of 13,000 teu ships on the service that replaced 8,900 teu ships.

Evergreen also dropped the Thamesport calls on its Asia-Europe service CES in July. The service no longer features a UK call and Evergreen serves the UK via other loops that call at Felixstowe.