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Maersk's South Pacific Express links NZ and west coast South America
MAERSK Line is to offer direct weekly New Zealand-West Coast South America (WCSA) service the South Pacific Express in both directions starting October 4.
This will provide two contra-rotating loops, making Maersk the only carrier with a two way weekly service between New Zealand and the WCSA,
Under the name South Pacific Express, this will connect New Zealand to Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Chile while providing an additional New Zealand-Far East northbound service by inserting a call at Tauranga on the westbound leg of its Far East-WCSA AC-3 service.
The AC-3 is one of three weekly Far East - WCSA loops organised in June within a restructuring of the carrier's network between Asia and the South American west coast, explains Alphaliner.
The first AC-3 Tauranga call is planned for October 4 with the 9,640 TEU Aotea Maersk. So far trading as Svend Maersk, the ship was recently renamed with this New Zealand-related prefix.
The New Zealand link will only be provided in the WCSA-NZ-Far East direction. It will complement the eastbound-only WCSA-NZ-Far East link offered since July on the Far East-WCSA AC-1 service.
This solution eliminates transshipments in Asia or California to connect the New Zealand and WCSA markets, therefore guaranteeing unrivalled transit times.
The Far East-New Zealand segments are marketed as Triple Star and supersede the former Triple Star service that connected the hubs of Tanjung Pelepas and Singapore to New Zealand.
The two other existing New Zealand relay loops hubbing in the South East Asian hubs of Tanjung Pelepas and Singapore.
Relay loops called the Northern Star and Southern Star will not be affected and will continue with connections to/from the Indian Ocean and to/from the Atlantic basin.
Their details are as follows: AC-1 - eastbound leg via NZ starts at Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Tauranga, San Antonio, Callao, Buenaventura, Balboa, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo (Mex) and then back to Busan. This loop turns in 11 weeks and utilises 11 ships of 4,500-5,000 TEU.
Then there is the AC-3 - Westbound leg via NZ-Manzanillo (Mex), Lazaro Cardenas, Balboa, Buenaventura, Callao, San Antonio, San Vicente, Tauranga, Kaohsiung, Guangzhou-Nansha, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Ningbo, Kwangyang, Yokohama and then back to Manzanillo in a rotation that takes 11 weeks with 11 ships of 7,000-9,600 TEU.
This will provide two contra-rotating loops, making Maersk the only carrier with a two way weekly service between New Zealand and the WCSA,
Under the name South Pacific Express, this will connect New Zealand to Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Chile while providing an additional New Zealand-Far East northbound service by inserting a call at Tauranga on the westbound leg of its Far East-WCSA AC-3 service.
The AC-3 is one of three weekly Far East - WCSA loops organised in June within a restructuring of the carrier's network between Asia and the South American west coast, explains Alphaliner.
The first AC-3 Tauranga call is planned for October 4 with the 9,640 TEU Aotea Maersk. So far trading as Svend Maersk, the ship was recently renamed with this New Zealand-related prefix.
The New Zealand link will only be provided in the WCSA-NZ-Far East direction. It will complement the eastbound-only WCSA-NZ-Far East link offered since July on the Far East-WCSA AC-1 service.
This solution eliminates transshipments in Asia or California to connect the New Zealand and WCSA markets, therefore guaranteeing unrivalled transit times.
The Far East-New Zealand segments are marketed as Triple Star and supersede the former Triple Star service that connected the hubs of Tanjung Pelepas and Singapore to New Zealand.
The two other existing New Zealand relay loops hubbing in the South East Asian hubs of Tanjung Pelepas and Singapore.
Relay loops called the Northern Star and Southern Star will not be affected and will continue with connections to/from the Indian Ocean and to/from the Atlantic basin.
Their details are as follows: AC-1 - eastbound leg via NZ starts at Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Tauranga, San Antonio, Callao, Buenaventura, Balboa, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo (Mex) and then back to Busan. This loop turns in 11 weeks and utilises 11 ships of 4,500-5,000 TEU.
Then there is the AC-3 - Westbound leg via NZ-Manzanillo (Mex), Lazaro Cardenas, Balboa, Buenaventura, Callao, San Antonio, San Vicente, Tauranga, Kaohsiung, Guangzhou-Nansha, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Ningbo, Kwangyang, Yokohama and then back to Manzanillo in a rotation that takes 11 weeks with 11 ships of 7,000-9,600 TEU.
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