Maersk sails to Gdansk on Asia-Europe service from December 1

MAERSK Line has announced it has extended its Asia-Europe AE10 service into the port of Gdansk, Poland, creating the first direct connection between China, and southeast Asia to Poland.

"This change is part of our off-peak capacity and slow steaming and will enable AE10 to offer unique coverage between Asian ports and Poland and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe including improved feeder connections to the Baltic and Russia," said a Maersk statement.

Dunkirk will be dropped from AE10 service (east and south China, south East Asia to Northern Europe, Poland and Scandinavia), but the capacity on the Asia-Europe trade will remain unchanged, the company said.

The 8,402-TEU Maersk Taikung departs Shanghai on December 1 and is expected to arrive at Gdansk on January 5. The ship sails back to the Far East from Gdansk on January 6.

The rotation will be Ningbo, Shanghai, Kaohsiung, Shenzhen (Yantian), Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, Le Havre, Felixstowe, Zeebrugge, Gdansk, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe, Nagoya, Shimizu and Yokohama.

(Source: www.schednet.com)