Hamburg Süd, the Germany-based liner shipping group, has announced alterations to its services between the North American West Coast and Australia/New Zealand.
The new service will offer three slings, deploying a total of 13 container vessels.
The Pacific North West String will consist of four vessels with a slot capacity of 1,700 TEU, and has a port rotation of Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Long Beach, Tauranga, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Auckland, Papeete, Ensenada, Oakland.
The Pacific Southwest String consists of six 2,500 TEU vessels, making port calls at Oakland, Long Beach, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Tauranga, Suva.
The second Pacific Southwest String offers a non-stop service from Long Beach to Sydney and from Brisbane to Long Beach, and consists of three 1,300 TEU-capacity vessels.
'The new services offer 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,' a said the group's Eva Graumann.
