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European lines serve up more Q3 service cancellations

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd have announced additional void sailings in the third quarter as the disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis continues into the second half of the year.

Maersk has unveiled that it will cancel more sailings in its Far East Asia services, as follows:

Impacted Trade: Far East Asia to/from Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan and Middle East

Service Vessel Voyage (Westbound) First Port / ETD Voyage (Eastbound) First Port / ETD
PKX2
COSCO THAILAND
074W
Shanghai / 25 June 2020
075E
Karachi / 18 July 2020
CHX
MDV IVORY DUMMY 1
026W
Laem Chabang / 4 July 2020
029E
Ennore / 13 July 2020
CHX
ALEXANDER BAY
028W
Laem Chabang / 18 July 2020
031E
Ennore / 27 July 2020
ABX
MDV 1 CMB DOH JAL FEEDER
025W
Colombo / 19 June 2020
026E
Jebel Ali / 24 June 2020
ABX
MDV 1 CMB DOH JAL FEEDER
027W
Colombo / 3 July 2020
028E
Jebel Ali / 8 July 2020

Impacted Trade: Far East Asia to/from Indian Subcontinent and Pakistan

Service Vessel Voyage (Westbound) First Port / ETD Voyage (Eastbound) First Port / ETD
PKX2
XIN FU ZHOU
060W
Shanghai / 9 July 2020
061E
Jawaharlal Nehru / 20 July 2020

Impacted Trade: West Coast South America, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico to Far East Asia

Current blanking

Service Vessel Voyage First Load Port / Date Last Load Port / Date
AC3
AOTEA MAERSK
027W
Balboa, PA / 30 June
San Antonio, CL / 14 July
AC2
SINE MAERSK
025N
Lazaro Cardenas, MX / 13 June
Manzanillo, MX / 3 July

Revised blanking

Service Vessel Voyage First Load Port / Date Last Load Port / Date
AC3
SVENBORG MAERSK
026W
Balboa, PA / 22 June
San Antonio, CL / 7 July
AC2
CHASTINE MAERSK
026N
Lazaro Cardenas, MX / 20 June
Manzanillo, MX / 10 July

Furthermore, Hapag-Lloyd has added blank sailings due to the global pandemic in the South America West Coast – Asia Service (AN1).

Hapag-Lloyd’s alternative sailings:

The Hamburg-based carrier has also announced one additional void sailing by THE Alliance, a shipping alliance of Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming, ONE and HMM.
AL5 Service/ Westbound Voyage in week 27:

NYK Meteor 066W

  • Southampton ETS 30 June
  • Le Havre ETS 1 July
  • Rotterdam ETS 3 July
  • Hamburg ETS 5 July
  • Antwerp ETS 7 July

Corresponding Eastbound Voyage:

  • Los Angeles ETS 3 August

Hapag-Lloyd offers the following alternative routings:

to / from Savannah:

Atlantic Loop 2 (AL2) Service:

Palena 016W ETS 2 July
Al Bahia 008W ETS 9 July





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