Hamburg Sud improves service between North American West Coast and Australia

Germany’s Hamburg Süd is commencing a new service between the North American West Coast and Australia / New Zealand a variety of fast and direct connections between both continents.

The new services will come into effect immediately. The rotations deliver the trade's best transit times, for example the time between Melbourne and Long Beach could be shortened by two days. The new service will offer three slings deploying a total of thirteen container vessels. The Pacific North West String (PNW) will consist of four vessels with a slot capacity of 1,700TEU. With a fixed-day fortnightly frequency it has the following port rotation: Oakland – Seattle – Vancouver - Long Beach – Tauranga – Sydney – Melbourne - Adelaide – Auckland – Papeete – Ensenada - Oakland. The Pacific Southwest String (PSW-1) will consist of six 2,500TEU vessels. It is a fixed-day weekly service and makes direct port calls at: Oakland - Long Beach – Auckland – Melbourne – Sydney – Tauranga – Suva. The second Pacific Southwest String (PSW-2) will offer a non-stop service from Long Beach to Sydney and from Brisbane to Long Beach. Three vessels with a capacity of 1,300TEU each will be phased into the fixed-day fortnightly "Sydney Express" service. The new services offers a wide range of reliable intermodal connections to further origins and destinations via fast, accessible road and rail links as well as with the expanded Hamburg Süd network.
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