Container lines reroute fleets to avoid US levies

The Splash247 website writes that global shipping is realigning fleets in anticipation of October’s extra port fees to be levied by the US on China-linked tonnage.

With our strong presence in the international container shipping arena, the U-Freight group also notes that the article reports that in the container sector, global liners are moving their vessels around in order not to be stung come this autumn’s new American penalties.

Linerlytica, the container shipping consultancy is reporting the Premier Alliance – made up of HMM, ONE and Yang Ming – will split its current Mediterranean Pacific South 2 (MS2) into two separate services covering the Asia-Med Mediterranean 2 (MD2) service and the Middle East Gulf-US Gulf Pacific South 2 (GS2) service. The move will allow ONE to remove 10 China-built ships currently deployed on the MS2 service from the US.

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