Cosco and Evergreen adjust Far East service

More capacity has been introduced into the Far East, SA, East Coast of South American (Ecsa) trade. The two Far East lines, Cosco Container Lines and Evergreen Line, are to split their current joint service connecting the three continents into two loops, according to Jim Cho, president of the Evergreen Agency in SA. From mid May what is presently the ESA (East Coast South America) service will be split into ESA and FAX (Far East Africa Express). ESA will operate with 10 vessels averaging 3 500 TEUs capacity, with Evergreen providing six and Cosco four. The service will miss out its present SA ports of call, and will have a port rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Hong Kong, Singapore, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santos, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The new FAX service will operate with eight vessels of 2 700-to-3 400 TEUs with a rotation of Shanghai, Ningbo, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Yantian, Singapore, Tanjung Pelepas, Durban, Cape Town, Singapore, Kaohsiung and Shanghai.