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The changes include additional calls at Jeddah and Saudi Arabia Maersk Line is restructuring its Asia-Mediterranean service network, effective mid-September, enhancing port coverage and reducing transit times on the route. As a result, the Danish carrier will now provide three direct weekly calls at Valencia, Spain, and a new port call at La Spezia, Italy.The changes include additional calls at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the AE11 Service, and Port Said, Egypt, on the AE15.The revised port coverage of the seven AE services is as follows:AE11: Qingdao, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, TanjungPelepas, Jeddah, Valencia, Barcelona, Genoa, La Spezia, Port Said, Salalah, Singapore and back to Qingdao, starting the westbound sailing Sept. 14 from Qingdao and eastbound, Valencia Oct. 15.AE15: Kwangyang, Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Nansha, Chiwan, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Kelang, Beirut, Marsaxlokk, Valencia, Barcelona, Fos Sur Mer, Genoa, Marsaxlokk, Port Said, Khor al Fakkan, Port Kelang, Nansha, and Xiamen, starting eastbound Sept. 18 from Valencia.AE5: Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Said, and Shanghai, starting westbound Sept. 22 from Shanghai and eastbound, Port Said Oct. 15.AE1: Nansha, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Ningbo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Said, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, and Bremerhaven, starting westbound Sept. 17 from Yokohama.AE2: ...

Daily Maersk is Maersk Line's new service on the Asia-North Europe trade lane, Daily Maersk, Maersk Line's new service on the Asia-North Europe trade lane, will dramatically change the way shipping is done. It offers a daily cut-off at the same time every day, seven days a week, and always with the exact same transportation time. Containerised cargo will now be delivered with unprecedented frequency and reliability.A daily service between Asia and North Europe with reliable on-time delivery will change liner shipping forever. Up until now, customers have had to adjust their production schedules and supply chains to accommodate shipping lines' unreliability, as they have never been able to trust that their cargo would be on time.Not anymore. The engine behind Daily Maersk is 70 vessels operating a daily service between four ports in Asia (Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian and Tanjung Pelepas) and three ports in Europe (Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven) in what amounts to a giant ocean conveyor belt for the world's busiest trade lane.Regardless of which of the four Asian ports the cargo is loaded at, the transportation time - from cut-off to cargo availability - is fixed. Daily cut-offs mean that cargo can be shipped immediately after production ...

Maersk Line says to offer more frequent daily service to link four Asian and three European ports Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping company, threw out a challenge to rivals by introducing a more streamlined and frequent service without a premium surcharge on its key Asia-Europe routes.With freight rates under pressure, Maersk's move amounts to a bid to compete aggressively on high capacity routes while avoiding slashing rates and starting a price war."This is a very, very strong move by Maersk," said Sydbank analyst Jacob Pedersen."If they can carry it out without a surcharge, as they say, I am sure that a lot of the volume that would probably be lost as a result of high capacity on the Asia-Europe route, will move to Maersk ships," Pedersen said.Maersk Line, the container shipping arm of Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), said the new service dubbed "Daily Maersk" would be available from Oct. 24.The daily service will operate between Ningbo, Shanghai and Yantian in China and Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia, Felixstowe in the UK, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Bremerhaven in Germany, Maersk Line said in a statement."Regardless of which of the four Asian ports the cargo is loaded at, ...

DMA issues casualty report about accident to a seafarer The Division for Investigation of Maritime Accidents/Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board has published a report about accident to a seafarer.While preparing for departure a ship's assistant fell from the gangway. The lifting wire to the gangway got stuck in one of the stanchions and in an attempt to loosen it the ship's assistant fell approximate 5 metres to the pier. The Casualty Report can be read here.Source: Danish Maritime Authority

It will have 19% less powered than smaller Emma Maersk class and use 4% less energy Danish shipping giant has issued a statement extolling the environmental virtues of the twin engine, twin skeg and propeller design of its recently-ordered 18,000 TEU Triple E class containerships. Maersk says: "All together, the Triple-E's twin-skeg propulsion system consumes approximately 4 percent less energy than Emma Maersk's single engine/single propeller propulsion system.Maersk Line has placed a US$1.9bn order South Korea's Daewoo yard to build 20 Triple E vessels. The first 10 vessels will be delivered 2013 and 2014 and the remaining 10 vessels are scheduled for delivery in 2014 and 2015.Maersk says: "To build the world's largest and most efficient vessel, Maersk Line needed to custom design a propulsion system that would be both powerful enough to move the vessel, but with maximum efficiency to be worthy of the Es in its name: Economies of scale, Energy efficient and Environmentally improved.""For starters," it continues, "the top speed of the Triple-E was capped at 23 knots, two knots lower than Emma Maersk's top speed. This meant a power requirement of only 65-70 megawatts compared to Emma's 80 megawatts - a 19 percent reduction."A slower max ...

Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding's presentation Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding's presentation of the new Triple-E vessels at a press conference in London February 21st 2011.

Maersk Lines-Mediterranean Shipping Company- CMA CGM- Evergreen Marine- American President Line 5. American President Line.American President Lines, or APL for short, services more than 140 countries worldwide and employs close to 20,000 people, making it one of the biggest container shipping companies in the world. APL has offices in nearly 100 countries worldwide, and reaches almost every inch of the globe. Originally founded immediately following the Mexican-American War in 1848 as the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the company has a rich history that includes shipping gold to the East Coast during the Civil War to support the Northern Cause. APL was taken over by the Dollar Shipping Company shortly after World War I, and was taken over by the U.S. government in 1938.The company also has a ship that survived World War II on display in Los Angeles, the S.S. Lane Victory, a ship that is deemed a U.S. National Historic Landmark.4. Evergreen MarineBased in Taiwan, Evergreen Marine's shipping operations mainly focus on the east coast of Asia and the west coast o North America. With a fleet of over 150 container ships, Evergreen Marine is well prepared for continued growth among Asia's emerging powers. The company also has major ...

More ship groups to call at Benghazi port Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping line, will resume its cargo service to Libya on Sept. 8 in its first shipment since February, a spokesman said on Tuesday.Maersk Line, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said it would only call at the east Libyan port of Benghazi for now."Currently only acceptance into Benghazi has been agreed. However, we follow the development closely and will evaluate the feasibility of opening up acceptance into the remaining Libyan ports ongoing with the safety of our local staff and vessel crew in mind as well as the likelihood of operating the ports in question," said group press officer Michael Christian Storgaard.Maersk Line said it stopped taking bookings from Libya, a step known as to seize acceptance, on Feb. 22."The cargo loading on the first vessel to call Benghazi will mainly be cargo that has been withheld in other Mediterranean ports due to the unrest in Libya," Storgaard said."Maersk Line was prior to seizing acceptance calling at Benghazi, Misrata and Al-Khoms in Libya."Tripoli, Misrata and Al-Khoms ports on the west of the country and Benghazi in the east, all on the Mediterranean, ...

52 post-Panamax container ships have been ordered since the beginning of 2011 Declining freight rates are not stopping lines from investing in new post-Panamax ship buildings, according to analyst Braemar Seascope.Since the beginning of this year, 52 containerships of 10,000 20-foot container equivalent units or larger have been ordered, the London-based ship brokers said. Ten ultra large container ships were ordered in the 2010 and none were ordered in 2009.A.P. Moller-Maersk Group leads the way in placing new orders in 2011 by commissioning Daewoo Shipbuilding to build 20 vessels each of 18,000 TEU capacity.OOIL, the parent company of Hong Kong-based carrier OOCL, ordered 10 vessels each of 13,000 TEU capacity from Samsung Heavy Industries in March."This year's container ship orders add 765,000 TEU to the post-Panamax boxship order book," said Braemar. "As of August 30, 2011, the total number of vessels of this size on order reached 158 ships, totaling 2.13 million TEU, which represents 48 percent of the fully cellular order book."Source: The Journal of Commerce

ECUMED will provide the fastest transit time in the marke Maersk Line is pleased to announce the launch of ECUMED, the weekly liner service connecting Ecuador directly with Spain, Turkey and the Black Sea.ECUMED will provide the fastest transit time in the market along with the best in class reefer facilities and schedule reliability."Investment in the new ECUMED service has been motivated by customers demand for reliable, fast and high quality refrigerated transportation of fruits, especially bananas, from Ecuador to the Mediterranean and Black Sea," says Anders Koksbang, Vice President, Maersk Line."Compared to other services in the market this will be a direct service without transshipment, ensuring high reliability for our customers and thus a higher safety and quality of the fruit to be delivered to the end consumer in Europe/Russia," he says. Globally, Maersk Line has consistently captured top spots for schedule reliability and this will also be a trade mark for ECUMED. The service will deploy 8 x 2500 TEU vessels with the following rotation:Guayaquil - Balboa - Manzanillo - Algeciras - Izmit Korfezi - Ambarli - Novorosiysk- Odessa - Ambarli - Izmit Korfezi - Algeciras - Balboa- GuayaquilECUMED Service Highlights:Fastest and first direct service from Ecuador to ...