New World Alliance and Grand Alliance offer joint Black Sea Service

The member lines of The New World Alliance and the Grand Alliance have begun a jointly operated service from Asia to the Black Sea.

TNWA member lines comprises Mitsui OSK Lines, APL, and Hyundai Merchant Marine. TNWA and the Grand Alliance carriers began co-operating in February this year with a slot exchange on their respective fortnightly services to the Black Sea. The new joint service will now provide shippers a weekly frequency with the common port coverage. Eight vessels will be deployed on the service. TNWA members will operate three vessels. Grand Alliance member lines will operate five vessels. Hanjin and UASC will keep participating in this service as slot charterers. Capacity for these eight ships is about 5,000TEU. Port rotation for the "EBX" (East-Mediterranean/Black Sea Express) Service is as follows: Shanghai - Ningbo - Shekou - Singapore - Suez - Istanbul - Constanza - Odessa - Constanza - Istanbul - Damietta - Suez - Jeddah - Singapore - Shanghai.

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