The AC5 service will provide Maersk Line’s customers with new direct products for Colombia, the Caribbean and Pecem, Brazil.
The company said it will reduce transit times and offer greater port coverage, and reduced transit times, most notably to the Colombian market, while maintaining the network’s leading reliability as Maersk Line will add a fourth loop to the service. The new service will start operations at the beginning of April 2018.
This is in line with Maersk’s stated ambition in December 2017, that the integration of Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd will offer customers better market coverage, attractive direct services and other benefits via a combined global network. Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd’s combined capacity on the new network remains the same as the total capacity currently deployed by the two carriers respectively.
With the inclusion of a fourth loop Maersk Line will be able to provide dedicated and direct products for the Peru and Chilean markets via AC1, the Mexican and Central America markets via the AC2, and the Colombian, Panama and Caribbean markets via the new AC5, in addition to a pan West Coast Latin America service (AC3).
The upgraded network includes: New Direct coverage to and from Singapore, Xiamen, Antofagasta, Angamos, Iquique, Cartagena, Manzanillo (Panama) and Pecem (Brazil) and four direct weekly services from China and Korea with full coverage to Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and West Coast of South America.
Also, there will be four direct services from Shanghai, three direct services from Ningbo, Shekou, Hong Kong and Busan, while extensive direct access to Chilean ports of Angamos, Antofagasta, Iquique, San Antonio, Valparaiso and San Vicente and improved transit times to Colombia, Panama and the Caribbean as well as improved transit times from Valparaiso and Callao to Yokohama, Busan and Shanghai by almost a week.
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