ANL expands in south east Asia-Australia by joining ASA consortium

MELBOURNE-based ANL, a unit of Marseille-based CMA CGM, has joined the ASA consortium to expand its south east Asia-Australia services by adding a new weekly loop to its network.

The service now calls on Jakarta, and increases calls to weekly on Brisbane when it had been only been fortnightly before, reports London's Containerisation International.

The ASA, with its weekly calls to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Jakarta and Singapore, will be served with four ships in the 2,400- 2,800-TEU range.

The report also said ANL will assume control of one of the two Regional Container Lines' (RCL)-operated ships in the service that now includes Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, "K" Line, OOCL, RCL, STX Pan Asia as well as ANL.

ANL will continue to operate in the AAX group with its vessel partners APL and NYK Line and slot charterers China Shipping Container Lines and OOCL, which deploys five ships in the 4,250-TEU range, which call at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore, Port Klang, Fremantle and back to Brisbane.