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More connections from Asia to Latin America as carriers reduce Intra-Asia services PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 09 February 2012 06:30
Shpg Gazette 9/2/12

IT has not been that long since the end of last year, but already there has been plenty of action in terms of service changes. But this will pale in comparison to the changes to come, according to the information being released by the shipping lines.

According to the latest data from Hong Kong Shipping Gazette's Carrier Service Comparison (CSC) database, the least number of changes have come on the Asia-Latin America trade, which by all accounts is still seeing good business growth.

Still, roughly 40 per cent of all port pairs covered in our most recent industry analysis have seen changes to the service serving them...

In a bid to understand what has taken place since the end of last year we have looked at a collection of port pairs from these key trades: Asia-Latin America, Asia-West Africa, Intra-Asia, Asia-Europe, transpacific and Asia-Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East.

The loading ports in China included in our analysis across all trades from Asia are: Chiwan, Da Chan Bay, Dalian, Hong Kong, Lianyungang, Nansha, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shantou, Shekou, Xiamen and Yantian.

For the discharge ports we have included the following:

Abidjan, Algeciras, Antwerp, Bandar Abbas, Bremerhaven, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cartagena, Charleston, Chennai, Cotonou, Dammam, Dubai, Felixstowe, Fos, Guayaquil, Hamburg, Ho Chi Minh, Istanbul, Itajai, Iquique, Jakarta, Jebel Ali, Kobe, Lazaro Cardenas, Los Angeles, Luanda, Manila, Mundra, Norfolk, Oakland, Port Klang, Rio de Janeiro, Savannah, Surabaya, Tacoma, Tanjung Pelepas, Tema and Zeebrugge.

Coming back to our Asia-Latin America findings, of the changes to the services calling our selected port pairs, most of these changes involved existing carriers adding calls or new players calling at the ports in question.

Roughly 30 per cent of all port pairs saw an increase in the number of weekly connections by at least one carrier.