New weekly service on Asia-SA -South America route

A new shipping service covering Asia, SA and South America is due to sail into Durban on May 4. This will involve five lines – Hanjin Shipping, Wan Hei, CCMA, Zim Line and Hapag Lloyd. According to Hariesh Manaadiar, Johannesburg branch manager of Sharaf Shipping Agency, the local agents for the Korean carrier, Hanjin Shipping, the maiden caller on the Asia Latin America Express (ALX) service will be Hanjin Rio de Janeiro, due to have departed Pusan April 12 with that May 4 Durban call. “The east-bound voyage returns to Durban on June 5,” he told FTW. The service will be on a weekly, fixed-day basis, he added, and with a port rotation of: Pusan; Shanghai; Ningbo; Yantian; Hong Kong; Shekou; Singapore; Durban; Rio de Janeiro; Santos; Buenos Aires; Montevideo; Rio Grande; Itajai; Santos; Durban; Singapore; Hong Kong.