THE Alliance has unveiled a newly expanded service network set to launch in April 2020. The members of THE Alliance, Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, and Yang Ming welcomed Hyundai Merchant Marine as a new core member of THE Alliance. With the FMC (Federal Maritime Comission) acceptance of HMM membership, THE Alliance offers an expanded product package which will be launched around April 1, 2020. Based on the existing network of THE Alliance, the new product package will offer increasing frequency particularly from South East Asia, as well as new direct port coverage and improved transit times.
A new pendulum service replacing the existing Asia-Europe FE5 and Transpacific PS7 services. This new service will be operated by eighteen 14000+ TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) ships and provides added weekly Transpacific coverage between South East Asia and Southern California, thereby expanding the number of services directly covering this lane to three, in addition to FP1 and PS3.
A modified PS3 will offer new direct coverage of Haiphong.
In addition, a new Transpacific loop, PS8, focusing on Central China and Korea (including new coverage of Incheon) will be inaugurated around 1 April 2020.
For Asia and North Europe, the group will deploy two 20,000+ TEU vessel services in a newly revised FE2 and FE4 design.
