Hamburg Süd launches North American - Australasian service

GERMAN liner company Hamburg Süd is launching new service between the North American West Coast and Australia and New Zealand. The new service will offer three slings deploying a total of 13 container vessels and providing service coverage of the total US West Coast.

The Pacific North West String (PNW) will consist of four vessels with a slot capacity of 1,700 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit). 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. It is the trade's only direct Adelaide port call.

The Pacific Southwest String (PSW-1) will consist of six 2,500 TEU 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 non-stop service from Long Beach to Sydney and from Brisbane to Long Beach. Three vessels with a capacity of 1,300 TEU each will be phased into the fixed-day fortnightly Sydney Express service.

Source: Portnews