CKYH Alliance to Modify TPS services and Link K-PNW and AES2 as Pendulum service

CKYH Alliance (COSCO, "K"LINE, Yang Ming, Hanjin Shipping) is to upgrade Trans-Pacific Services by adjusting the routes of PSW2, PSW4, PSW5 and Y-PNW service. What's more, there would be a pendulum service covering North America, Asia and North Europe by linking K-PNW with AES2.

Through this upgrading, the CKYH Alliance aims not only to streamline TPS service deployment, but also to reduce CO2 emission by adopting economic sailing speed. This is also one of the action plans according to the consensus of CKYH Summit Meeting held in Okinawa last month.

The new services will take effect in the end of June 2008. Details of the loops are as following:

PSW2 (to adjust from 5500TEU vessels to 4300TEU vessels): Hong Kong-Yantian-Kaohsiung-Keelung-Los Angeles-Oakland-Keelung-Kaohsiung-Hong Kong.

PSW4 (to combine with PSW5 by using 5500TEU vessels): Shanghai-Ningbo-Qingdao-Los Angeles-Oakland-Kwangyang-Shanghai.

Y-PNW (to adjust the sailing route and focus on Taiwan and Central China markets): Kaohsiung-Shanghai-Ningbo-Pusan-Tacoma-Vancouver-Kaohsiung.

K-PNW/AES2 (to be linked as Pendulum service by using 13x5500TEU vessels): Kobe-Tokyo-Nagoya-Hong Kong-Singapore-Port Said-Rotterdam-Felixstowe-Le Havre-Port Said-Singapore-Hong Kong-Yantian-Xiamen-Nagoya-Tokyo-Tacoma-Vancouver-Portland-Kobe.

Besides above service adjustments, the CKYH Alliance will adopt a serial measures to better the service to customers. There also will be more adjustments on TPS services after carefully studying.