Maersk Line to introduce enhanced services in May

News was prepared under the information support of Online Daily Newspaper on Hellenic and international Shipping "Hellenic Shipping News".

30 Apr 2009

Maersk Line will implement new services for its Asia-Europe network starting the middle of May 2009. "Our service developments will offer our customers more direct port coverage, unchanged Asia-Europe network capacity, enhanced product reliability, and a stronger product from Asia to the Adriatic," says Maersk. On its Asia to Northern Europe strings, Maersk will concentrate on the UK services into Felixstowe (AE1 service) and improve the direct coverage between China and Le Havre (AE10 service).
To the Mediterranean, Maersk will run the AE11 (Asia-Jeddah, Egypt, Italy, France) service in a vessel sharing agreement with CMA-CGM. At the same time, the company will introduce direct calls from Asia to Trieste and Koper on the AE12 service, also in partnership with CMA-CGM.
"We are very pleased to announce these Asia-Europe service improvements. We believe it displays our commitment to our customers, also in the present volatile trading environment.
With these changes we are offering a wider range of port calls than ever before" says Lee Sissons, Director of Asia-Europe services in Maersk Line.
"We do not find it necessary to expand capacity and have therefore entered into a number of vessel sharing arrangements instead of pushing additional tonnage into the market. We believe that our customers will benefit from the service developments in terms of improved transits and wider coverage," he added.

Source: EHL